Asean NCAP gave zero star to this car and another ...

By CARSIFU | 1 June 2016


HO CHI MINH CITY: Fresh from reports that five cars in India had registered zero star for crash safety, Malaysians now learn of two cars that have earned similar disrepute in Asean.

The Kia Morning and Hyundai EON earned zero star for Adult Occupant Protection. The Morning scored 1.48 points and EON 0.00 points (an absolute zero-star car). For Child Occupant Protection assessment, both of the models achieved 1-Star rating at 27% compliance.

The Morning (otherwise known as Picanto) from Indonesia and EON from the Philippines were tested on April 14 and May 10 respectively. Both were without airbags.

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Asean NCAP announced the results at the fourth edition of Asean Automobile Safety Forum 2016 held here on Tuesday. The other models tested were Nissan X-Trail, Nissan Navara, Suzuki Ertiga, Suzuki Ciaz and Isuzu MU-X. Four received 4- Star and one model received 5-Star. The X-Trail earned 5-stars in adult protection, while the 4-star achievers in this category were the Navara, Ertiga, Ciaz and MU-X.

"We are sad to share that in the history of Asean NCAP, we had a new car in the Asean market that failed to score any single point out of 16.00 points assessment criteria. This is similar to the test conducted by Safer Cars for India project with Global NCAP in which the EON received 0-Star with similar points at 0.00 from the maximum of 17.00 points," said Asean NCAP chairman Prof Dr Wong Shaw Voon.

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"A lot of latest technologies had become matured and saved thousands and probably millions of lives. With the strong push by the relevant authorities and the pressure from the consumers, I strongly believe the day where there are no zerostar vehicles on our road will soon come true.”

The Morning and EON are among the popular cars in their respective countries. In 2014, the Morning has a sales volume of 11,000 in the Indonesian market whilst Hyundai EON, available in the Philippines market, reached a sales number of 4,000.

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