UAE Business: Range Rover models awarded five-star Euro NCAP safety ratings – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: Range Rover models awarded five-star Euro NCAP safety ratings – Gulf Digital News

The New Range Rover and Range Rover Sport have both been awarded maximum five-star ratings in the latest Euro NCAP safety tests. The luxury SUVs draw on more than 50 years of expertise in delivering exceptional breadth of all-terrain capability, refinement and safety.

The new models are the latest in a long line of Range Rovers to gain a five-star rating under the stringent Euro NCAP star rating safety protocols introduced in 2009, stretching back to the Evoque in 2011.

Both models are based on a new mixed-metal, flexible Modular Longitudinal Architecture, which provides solid foundations for a suite of state-of-the-art driver assistance technologies to work in harmony for a responsive and refined drive. New Range Rover, which is available with four-, five- and seven-seat configurations, is up to 50% stiffer than its predecessor while the Range Rover Sport is 35% stiffer than before.

The award-winning New Range Rover scored 87% for Child Occupant Protection and 72% for Vulnerable Road Users, while the Range Rover Sport achieved an 85% rating for Adult Occupant Protection. Both SUVs obtained 82% for Safety Assist.

Hard work and expertise

Thomas Mueller, Executive Director Product Engineering, Jaguar Land Rover, said: “These excellent Euro NCAP results are a direct result of