EuroNCAP has released new crash test results. Of the four wrecked cars, the Chevrolet Aveo subcompact showed the worst result.
During a frontal impact, the driver pierced the airbag and bent the steering wheel - head on top and chest on the bottom.
The structure of the body barely withstood a collision with a barrier at a speed of 64 km / h: if the impact was even a little stronger, the amount of living space in the cabin could be significantly reduced. In addition, rigid elements in the front panel can be traumatic for the driver's and passenger's legs. However, the front passenger in the Aveo is a little better protected: its pillow reliably protects the head from contact with the windshield or dashboard plastic.
In the child occupant protection test, the Aveo also scored three out of five stars. In a frontal impact, the head of the three-year-old mannequin was displaced forward by more than 55 cm. This means that in a head-on collision, a real child could well hit the interior details. In addition, the test organizers felt that Chevrolet did not pay enough attention to the markings indicating the presence of an ISOFIX child seat anchorage in the rear seat. The car scored two stars out of four for safety for pedestrians - its bumper poses a threat to the lower part of their legs.
Frontal crash test: 64 km/h,
overlap - 40%,
deformable barrier.
Maximum score - 16 
Side crash test: 50 km/h,
deformable barrier.
Maximum score - 16
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Child restraints
Pedestrian safety
Frontal impact:
The driver's head, despite the airbag, hit the steering wheel, deforming its rim. The lower part of the rim bent against the chest. Damage to the driver's side doorway meant that the bodywork had reached its breaking point and would not have survived a more severe impact. Some elements of the front panel pose a potential danger to the knees and hips of the front riders.Safety of child passengers:
The head of a 3-year-old child with a windshield has shifted significantly and could hit the surrounding interior elements. A rear-facing seat cannot be installed in the front seat, as the front airbag does not deactivate. It does not properly indicate the possibility of installing a seat using the ISOFIX anchorage system in the rear seats.Side kick:
Chest protection was considered weak.Security is one of key indicators when buying a new car. Today, almost all new automotive products coming off the assembly line are mercilessly broken for the benefit of testing their safety. And in this article we will talk about how the rather popular Chevrolet Aveo car coped with this task, by the way, test drive Chevrolet Aveo.
To begin with, the Chevrolet Aveo compact family car turned out to be, to put it mildly, not the best car in terms of the safety of its passengers. So, according to the crash test according to the EuroNCAP methodology, conducted in 2006, the car performed very poorly in a head-on collision, scoring only 3 points out of a possible 16.
At the same time, the car still received additional penalty points for severe deformation of the body, displacement of its pillars inside the cabin and the weaker sex.
The steering wheel, even with the airbag installed, caused quite serious damage to the chest and head of the test dummy, the possibility of such injuries incompatible with life was recorded by the technique.
The design of the pedals turned out to be very traumatic, which, in a frontal impact, can severely damage the driver’s legs, moving 15 millimeters up and 237 millimeters forward.
However, having failed the frontal impact test, the Chevrolet Aveo performed much better in a side impact, scoring 17 out of a possible 18 in this crash test.
In tests for the safety of children and pedestrians, the car received three stars, which is a good result for cars in this class.
To the positive elements of safety, experts attributed the sound signal about an unfastened seat belt and the ability to turn off the passenger airbag when transporting children in the front seat in a child seat.
The results of the EuroNCAP tests shocked many automotive experts. After all, Chevrolet Aveo until 2006 was not subjected to any crash tests using this method, only the previous version of the car was tested, and then according to American standards (that version showed very decent safety). Experts explain this discrepancy in the results by various testing methods. According to American standards, the car is smashed against a concrete cube, and in the European version of the standards, the impact falls on an obstacle imitating another car, while the impact does not go exactly to the center, but with an offset, as is more often the case in real life. In addition, other standardization standards in EuroNCAP are much tougher than in crash tests conducted in the United States.
Safety equipment: front seat belt pretensioners, front seat belt load limiting system, driver airbag, front passenger airbag, side airbag to protect the body, side airbag to protect the head, ISOfix mounting system on the rear seats.
New . performing in the class of compact family cars, became a loser according to the results of crash tests conducted by EuroNCAP. For the safety of the driver and passenger in a head-on collision, this model managed to score only 3 points out of 16 possible, and also received a penalty for shifting the A-pillar into the passenger compartment. For side impact safety, the car scored 17 points (94% of the possible maximum), but this did not help him get a final rating above 1 star. Before that, only cars produced before 2000 showed such a poor result. Meanwhile, it can be noted that the safety of children in the cabin in an accident and the safety of a pedestrian Aveo 4 and 3 stars, respectively, which is pretty good for a representative of this class.
During a frontal collision, experts noted a fairly strong deformation of the body, calling its structure unstable during overloads. structural deformation and welds indicate that the load on the body was excessive and resulted in significant damage. The experts took points for a strong displacement of the A-pillar back. The displacement and trajectory of the steering wheel threatens to injure the driver's head. Despite deploying the airbag, the driver's dummy hit the steering wheel with its chest, bending it. The compression of the chest upon impact was considered unacceptably high: a high probability of fatal injury. As a result, the last star in the assessment for the safety of adult passengers is crossed out. Hard parts of the dashboard can injure the knees and hips of the driver and passenger. Also, the car did not receive a single point for ankle protection. The displacement of the pedal assembly turned out to be significant and carries a risk of injury. On impact, it moved 237mm back and 15mm up. In the side test, only 1 point was deducted for a slight excess of loads on the chest. The experts had no more claims.
The protection of child passengers is on good level, in all tests, safety was rated high. Excessive acceleration of the head and loads on the chest were not recorded by sensors on the dummies of both children. Child seats are installed on the outer rear seats (from 1.5 years old backwards, from 3 years old facing forward). But the manufacturer did not noticeably marked the ISOFIX attachment points on the rear outboard seats. The front passenger seat airbag is deactivated, allowing a rear facing child seat to be installed in the front seat. However, the labeling of the airbag switch leaves much to be desired, and the airbag status indication is not entirely clear. Therefore, the experts considered it necessary to reduce the scores for this test.
Good scores were given for pedestrian safety. The bumper has a certain dampening effect and is able to protect the pedestrian's legs in the event of a collision, but the front edge of the hood does not provide safety guarantees. As for the areas of possible pedestrian contact with the hood, among them there are both rated “good” and those marked with a “poor” rating.
results 2006 shocked the owners of the pre-reform version. It should be recalled that the previous Aveo was not broken according to the EuroNCAP methodology. Only crash tests were carried out in the USA according to NCAP in 2004, 2005, 2006. For three years in a row, Aveo earned 5 stars for passenger and driver safety and became almost the only Korean car in this class to receive such a high rating. True, the American methodology is very different from the European one. Firstly, the cars in the American tests hit a concrete cube in a frontal impact, and EuroNCAP conducts tests with an offset, which is closer to real life. Secondly, the speed before the collision is different. Thirdly, Europeans are more critical in their assessments. Be that as it may, it is the EuroNCAP tests that are considered the most difficult for automakers.
