ANCAP result specific to internal combustion engined model

FIVE star success in petrol form – but the jury is still out in respect to the hybrid edition.

That’s the conclusion from the Australasian New Car Assessment Programme, better known simply as ANCAP, from crash testing the Haval Jolion compact crossover.

The New Zealand-funded, Australia-based agency is happy to give the combustion engined version car a maximum five star rating, but has added that this score doesn’t apply to the flagship Hybrid edition, on account of its altered mechanical hardware – primarily the battery cell.

The electrified city-SUV will have to undergo its own round of testing, ANCAP has suggested in comment to media provided with announcement of the ICE version’s scores.

A product of China’s GWM-Haval, the Jolion scored 90 percent for adult occupant protection, 84 percent for child occupant protection, 64 percent for vulnerable road user protection and 92 percent for its safety assists.

ANCAP did air slight concern about the car’s “mixed” abilities to avoid a collision with pedestrians and cyclists. It also gave out ‘marginal’ results for the legs of the driver in the frontal offset crash test, the chest of rear occupants in the full-width frontal test and pelvis of the driver in the side impact test.

Almost every other test yielded ‘good’ results and a couple of ‘adequate’ appraisals, however.

“This five-star ANCAP safety rating for the Jolion is the third awarded to GWM under ANCAP’s stringent 2020-2022 protocols,” said ANCAP chief executive officer Carla Hoorweg.

“There has been a significant amount of interest in a rating for this model and it has been shown to offer a high standard of safety.”