Volvo XC90 scores 100% in Euro NCAP Safety tests

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The new Volvo XC90 comes out top of the class in the latest round of Euro NCAP tests with a perfect 100 per cent score in the Safety Assist category.

Euro NCAP’s test have got tougher for 2015, but it seems car makers have also upped their game with seven of the nine cars tested by NCAP in the latest round of tests coming out with five stars. But it was the new Volvo XC90 that’s top of the class.

The XC90 got a perfect 100 per cent in the crash avoidance and driver assistance tests (which is what they’d covet most), with 97 per cent for adult occupants and 87 per cent for child occupants and is the first car manufacturer to score perfect marks in the Autonomous Emergency Braking Car to Car rear-end tests. Which augers well for Volvo’s aim to see no one seriously injured or killed in a Volvo by 2020.

The XC90 may have been top of the tree, but the new Audi Q7 did pretty well too, with a 94 per cent adult occupancy and 88 per cent child occupancy score, but managed only 76 per cent on the crash avoidance and driver assistance tests.

But it wasn’t just big SUVs that did well, as the Ford Galaxy, Ford S-Max, Toyota Avensis, Renault Kadjar and VW Touran all came in with a five star rating, with just the Mazda CX-3 and Mitsubishi L200 having to settle for a four star rating.

But even that’s a good achievement in the new tougher tests, especially for the L200 that’s more commercial than car, with a lack of standard safety equipment being the cause of the lower rating.

The Euro NCAP tests may have got tougher, but it seems car makers are up to the challenge. Especially Volvo.