The People Mover segment has today been given a boost, with Australasia's independent voice on vehicle safety, ANCAP, announcing a 5 star safety rating for the high-selling Kia Carnival, tested against the latest 2020-2022 rating criteria.

The Mazda MX-30 enters the Australasian market with a 5 star ANCAP safety rating, demonstrating high levels of safety performance across the four key areas of assessment. The Mazda MX-30 is the seventh vehicle to be independently assessed by ANCAP against the more expansive 2020-22 test and rating criteria.

Australasia's independent voice on vehicle safety, ANCAP SAFETY, has released its first zero star rating. The Mitsubishi Express van – a popular choice for commercial fleets and private tradespeople – was unable to qualify for a rating higher than zero due to the absence of active safety systems. The Express also delivered marginal performance in physical crash tests and lacks basic safety features that consumers have come to expect in a newly released model.

Australasia's independent voice on vehicle safety, ANCAP SAFETY, has released its first zero star rating. The Mitsubishi Express van – a popular choice for commercial fleets and private tradespeople – was unable to qualify for a rating higher than zero due to the absence of active safety systems. The Express also delivered marginal performance in physical crash tests and lacks basic safety features that consumers have come to expect in a newly released model.

Australasia's independent voice on vehicle safety, ANCAP SAFETY, has broadened its field of view to review the active safety performance of a range of commercial vans – a segment not previously put under the microscope.

The new Land Rover Defender showed strong performance across the four key areas of safety assessment.

The new generation Kia Sorento performed well across each of the physical crash tests and in particular, revealed a very strong Safety Assist score of 89% - the highest Safety Assist score achieved to date against increased 2020 assessment criteria.

Australasia's independent voice on vehicle safety, ANCAP SAFETY, has revealed the results of its first side-by-side comparison of autonomous emergency braking technology across Australia's top 10 selling vehicle models. Effectiveness testing of autonomous emergency braking (AEB) technology was introduced as part of ANCAP's routine safety rating assessment process in January 2018, following the adoption of common test and rating protocols with European counterpart, Euro NCAP. To the end of 2019, sixty (60) new vehicle models had been assessed against the common criteria, with all offering some form of AEB as standard or an optional extra.

ANCAP welcomes Australian Government progress towards mandating emergency braking technology.

ANCAP welcomes Australian Government progress towards mandating emergency braking technology.

ANCAP welcomes Australian Government progress towards mandating emergency braking technology.

ANCAP welcomes Australian Government progress towards mandating emergency braking technology.

ANCAP welcomes Australian Government progress towards mandating emergency braking technology.

Australasia's independent vehicle safety authority, ANCAP SAFETY, has today published a 5 star ANCAP safety rating for the Ford Puma upon its arrival to local shores.

All variants of the Isuzu D-MAX (utility) have achieved the maximum 5 star ANCAP safety rating against the latest test and rating criteria – including the fitting of a new centre airbag.

What's New From 2020?

Australasia's leading independent vehicle safety authority, ANCAP SAFETY, has today published a 5 star safety rating for the new Nissan Juke. The second-generation Juke arrives in Australia and New Zealand with robust scores in each of the four key areas of ANCAP safety assessment.

Australasia's leading independent vehicle safety authority, ANCAP SAFETY, has today published 5 star ANCAP safety ratings for the Volkswagen T-Cross.

Australasia's leading independent vehicle safety authority, ANCAP SAFETY, has today published 5 star ANCAP safety ratings for Audi e-tron.