Ford Mustang gets just TWO stars in latest Euro NCAP tests – Volvo get FIVE stars (+ video)

The Ford Mustang has scored just two stars in the latest Euro NCAP Safety tests – amongst the worst result for any car in recent years.

You’d like to think that any car from a major car maker should score well in Euro NCAP Safety Tests, but the Ford Mustang has made that though a complete nonsense with a woeful TWO starts in the first round of Euro NCAP tests of 2017.

The Mustang was built to do well in the less challenging US Consumer tests, but the NCAP test revealed real concerns about its crash protection for occupants and a lack of safety equipment.

In the front offset test, the Mustang’s airbags failed to inflate enough to restrain occupants, and in the full width frontal tests the lack of pre-tensioners on the rear seatbelts meant occupants would slide under the belts and be more severely injured. 

Euro NCAPO boss, Michiel van Ratingen, said:

Ford did not expect Euro NCAP to test the Mustang and chose not to fit safety technology in Europe which is available to its American consumers, and available on several other sports cars for that matter. Such an attitude to safety should trouble Ford’s customers, whether they are buying a high-powered muscle car or a regular family car.

At the other end of the safety scale, the new Volvo S90 and V90 were also tested, with both receiving five stars and with scores which exceed the best overall score of any model tested in 2016, with the top three scores ever achieved in NCAP tests belonging to Volvo.

Ford Mustang Euro NCAP Test Video