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Adrian PatonFive-star safety rating for Ford FG Falcon
August 11th 2008 00:15
The all new Ford FG Falcon has become the first Australian-built car to receive a five-star safety rating from the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP).
With a total score of 34.61 points out of 37, the FG Falcon has achieved the highest score ever recorded by a locally-produced car in Australia and places it in the top 7 per cent of all published ANCAP results, as well as in the top 24 per cent of published ANCAP five-star results.
Ford Australia president Bill Osborne said: “The petrol FG Falcon sedan range has been judged by ANCAP as being the safety leader amongst locally-manufactured vehicles, cementing Ford's long standing reputation for safety leadership in Australia,”
“We design our cars to deliver real-world safety benefits for our customers. This result is a resounding third party endorsement of the extensive safety development program undertaken for the all-new FG Falcon.
“Not only is the FG Falcon the safest vehicle ever produced in this country, it is also competitive with the safest sedans in the world.
“These safety test results add further validation to the extensive crash simulation process and physical crash test program conducted by Ford Australia for the FG Falcon, which was the most comprehensive in the company's history."
“We design our cars to deliver real-world safety benefits for our customers. This result is a resounding third party endorsement of the extensive safety development program undertaken for the all-new FG Falcon.
“Not only is the FG Falcon the safest vehicle ever produced in this country, it is also competitive with the safest sedans in the world.
“These safety test results add further validation to the extensive crash simulation process and physical crash test program conducted by Ford Australia for the FG Falcon, which was the most comprehensive in the company's history."
Achieving a five-star safety rating is no mean feat. To put things into perspective, Ford conducted 426 full vehicle-representative physical crash tests in more than 38 different vehicle crash modes and over 5000 simulated crash tests were completed during the course of the vehicle's development.
Read the full ANCAP safety report here.
[Source: ANCAP; Ford]
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