Chapter 8 Doubts about China's C-NCAP

C-NCAP is the abbreviation of the crash test of China Automotive Research and Technology Center, and it is a more authoritative and official crash test in China in recent years.Overall, having this thing is better than not having it.In the past, in order to prove their safety, Chinese cars always hit the wall or flipped the car to make a gimmick. They also used accidental events such as a major traffic accident in their own car but no one died as news propaganda.With C-NCAP, at least there is a standard that can be used. But the problem is that this standard does not seem to be very standard.First of all, the impact threshold of our C-NCAP is relatively low, which is suspected of misleading consumers. NCAP is the European crash test standard, which is much higher than ours. It is generally difficult to get the highest five-star car.And many consumers tend to confuse these tests with different crash standards, thinking that the whole world implements one standard, and five-star is the best.

Under the low standards of China's crash test, a large number of five-star cars have been born.After these five-star models got five stars, they immediately made a big publicity in the media, saying how safe their cars are.I took a look at the cars, and they all got four stars in European crash tests.Of course, it is also a car with very good safety performance.But definitely not the concept of "top". But today I saw a piece of news that made me laugh so hard that a certain Honda car series won the title of five and a half stars.It turns out that the five-star standard is not the highest standard for a long time. The promotion of those five-star models is oolong promotion, including the Crown, Focus, Odyssey, Octavia, Camry and many other cars that have won the five-star C-NCAP title. Can we sue those car manufacturers for false propaganda?What are "five-star laurel crown", "safest star", "five-star general", "five-star honor" and so on. This is the same as going home and telling your parents that you have scored 100 points in the exam. In fact, the full score is 120 points.It's a lie.

In addition, I found a very strange phenomenon, C-NCAP has very strange configuration requirements, some cars with very low scores (in fact, they are indeed unsafe), the selected models are all standard configurations, maybe there is no front airbag Or side airbags, and most of the participating Japanese cars are equipped with the highest configuration, that is, with side airbags and air curtains.In fact, the sales volume of models with the highest configuration is often very small, and many standard models do not have side airbags and side air curtains. What is even more strange is that the C-NCAP cars are all purchased by the agency itself. Why does the agency like to buy the highest configuration with side airbags of some Japanese models so much? (In the "highest configuration" here, the main difference is the side airbags and air curtains, and other luxury configurations have nothing to do with safety performance.) Do they spend more money on themselves, the happier they are?That being the case, why don't they buy high-end models with side airbags for some models? (Let’s popularize car knowledge again. In fact, the safety factors of most Japanese models are indeed good, and they are not obviously inferior to German cars. Many rumors about Japanese cars being unsafe are prejudices. We must seek truth from facts.)

It is foreseeable that this model of Honda is about to start a large-scale publicity.And this publicity will also embarrass other five-star manufacturers in the past. Of course, we can also foresee that in the near future, six-star models will also appear.Maybe no matter how many "negotiations and negotiations", the seven-star star with the most stars in the world will be born. I think there may be an ambiguous relationship between C-NCAP and some car manufacturers, but the agency's data can still be basically accepted, because the general safety performance is still accurate.However, this is unfair to other more honest or poorer manufacturers who have no ambiguous relationship with the organization, because it is very likely that the cars of other manufacturers will be used as green leaves, and these unfair data may also mislead consumers. By.As for the possibility of a tricky transaction between the self-proclaimed fair C-NCAP-China Automotive Research and Technology Center and the manufacturer, I judge that the possibility is five stars.My full marks are...