The Mitsubishi Express van is the first to receive a zero-star safety rating in Australia
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The Mitsubishi Express van flunked the car safety test.
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Mitsubishi is facing questions over its new van after it became the first vehicle ever to receive a zero-star rating from Australia s safety program.
The Express is pitched as a workhorse van that can function as a moving office for businesses on the go but the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) found it lacked up-to-date crash avoidance technology while also posing notable risks of injury to drivers and passengers.
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the lowest safety rating ever applied to a vehicle in Australia.
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zero star rating by the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) is the lowest safety score issued in the
28-year history of the independent authority.
Despite the shock result, representatives for both car companies said there are
“no current plans” to withdraw the Mitsubishi Express or Renault Trafic vans from sale locally.
Both vehicles combined accounted for
about 10 per cent of all new mid-size delivery vans sold in Australia last year.
Previous examples of the worst safety scores include a
one-star rating issued to the previous generation
Mitsubishi Express ‘definitely not’ unsafe
Mitsubishi Express ‘definitely not’ unsafe
March 02, 2021
Car-maker defends safety credentials of delivery van in wake of shock zero-star ANCAP result
Mitsubishi Australia stands by the safety performance of the Mitsubishi Express, despite the van receiving the first-ever zero-star rating from the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP).
The 2021 Mitsubishi Express is a rebadged version of the Renault Trafic that was awarded a three-star result out of five by ANCAP’s European affiliate Euro NCAP in 2015.
But ANCAP never applied those ratings to the Renault Trafic in Australia, and has now crash-tested the closely-related Mitsubishi Express based on much tougher testing protocols introduced in 2020.
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