NCAP Safety Ratings For Cars

The European New Car Assessment Programme (known as 'NCAP') provides testing of the safety of new car and van models.

Safety is tested by buying new cars from dealerships and then testing them in a laboratory to simulate the effects of accidents and the consequences of those accidents on individual vehicles and the occupants.

Cars which only meet the minimum legal standard (often known as 'type approval') receive 0 stars.

Cars which exceed the minimum a awarded stars according to a rating system, which works as follows:

• 0 Star Safety: Meeting type-approval standards so can legally be sold but lacking critical modern safety technology
• 1 Star Safety: Marginal crash protection and little in the way of crash avoidance technology
• 2 Star Safety: Nominal crash protection but lacking crash avoidance technology
• 3 Star Safety: At least average occupant protection but not always equipped with the latest crash avoidance features
• 4 Star Safety: Overall good performance in crash protection and all round; additional crash avoidance technology may be present
• 5 Star Safety: Overall excellent performance in crash protection and well equipped with comprehensive and robust crash avoidance technology

You can read more about the NCAP system using this link

We've presented the results of NCAP testing in the table below for all cars.

If you're particularly interested in company cars provided under an Electric Car Salary Sacrifice plan then we also have an additional list.

This is because employers providing company cars have greater responsibilities than employers where employees drive their own cars.

You can see the list for electric cars see by clicking here.