WOLFSBURG: The new Volkswagen Touareg is one of the safest cars around, having just earned a Euro NCAP rating of five stars.
One of the most impressive aspects of the new Touareg is its comprehensive safety package consisting of an optimised body structure, a belt, seat, and airbag network, and innovative assist systems.
The SUV passed with flying colours in all four individual Euro NCAP categories. In the “Adult occupant safety” category, the vehicle scores 89 percent of the maximum mark. The Touareg also scores 86 percent for “Child occupant safety”, 81 percent in the “Safety assist” category and 72 percent in terms of “Vulnerable road users”.
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Euro NCAP has been a stringent benchmark for the safety level of new vehicles in Europe for the last 20 years. Over the past few years, the test programme’s criteria have become increasingly strict and it currently includes elements, such as different collision scenarios (including front- end collisions with an aluminium barrier at 64kph and a 40 percent overlap, side impact at 50kph into the vehicle's side structure, bollard side impact at 32kph) and more stringent demands in terms of standard driver assist systems.
Following its launch in spring 2018, the Touareg has become the new flagship of the Volkswagen brand, launching with the widest range of assist, driving dynamics and comfort systems that has ever been integrated in a Volkswagen.
This includes technologies such as Night Vision (detects persons and animals in the dark using a thermal imaging camera) Traffic Jam and Roadwork Lane Assist (assisted steering and lane departure warning up to 60kph, acceleration and braking), Front Cross Traffic Assist (responds to traffic crossing in front of the Touareg), a new roll stabilisation system with electromechanically controlled anti-roll bars, IQ.Light – LED Matrix headlights (interactive dipped beams and main beams controlled by a camera) and a head-up display projected directly onto the windscreen (windshield head-up display).
