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Old 01-02-2018, 07:50 PM   #1
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Default ANCAP zb commodore rating

So ANCAP has worked of the euro test only to call the zb commodore as a 5star car

http://www.ancap.com.au/media-and-ga...a-with-5-stars

Is it just me that finds it wierd that they are happy to use a LHD versions test?
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Old 01-02-2018, 07:55 PM   #2
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Default Re: ANCAP zb commodore rating

Yet another ANCAP rating with holes in it.

The range-wide rating is based on a 1.6 diesel LHD car, tested in Europe. This doesn't take account for the V6 engine that could potentially alter the frontal results. But ANCAP give it the benefit of the doubt.
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Old 01-02-2018, 07:56 PM   #3
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Default Re: ANCAP zb commodore rating

ANCAP is a joke.

Old mate is on the money here for a change:

https://youtu.be/XMmlG1soLv8
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Old 01-02-2018, 07:59 PM   #4
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Default Re: ANCAP zb commodore rating

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Yet another ANCAP rating with holes in it.

The range-wide rating is based on a 1.6 diesel LHD car, tested in Europe. This doesn't take account for the V6 engine that could potentially alter the frontal results. But ANCAP give it the benefit of the doubt.
It really is a dodgy / corrupt system.

New standards, but they don’t back date new cars (on sale car ratings) that do not meet the new 5 star standard.
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Default Re: ANCAP zb commodore rating

Looks like it out performed the falcon..
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ANCAP is a joke.

Old mate is on the money here for a change:

https://youtu.be/XMmlG1soLv8
Ahh yes, Mr Hypocrite. His favourite car only gets a low rating because ANCAP's system is wrong, but the Mustang gets a low rating because it's a death trap
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Old 02-02-2018, 12:02 AM   #7
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Default Re: ANCAP zb commodore rating

Bogans need to feel safe too....
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Old 02-02-2018, 01:17 AM   #8
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Bogans need to feel safe too....
In their Falcons.
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Old 02-02-2018, 03:52 AM   #9
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Ahh yes, Mr Hypocrite. His favourite car only gets a low rating because ANCAP's system is wrong, but the Mustang gets a low rating because it's a death trap
Thought the same thing. He loves the Koreans and hates Ford, yet claims to be unbiased.

At least it highlighted the flaws in the new ancap system.
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This is where it needs to be called ANCAP II or ANCAP Rev.2018 - anything to differentiate the old system.

This new arrangement with points given for gadgets is utterly ridiculous. None of them will help when a truck runs a red & T-bones you.

ANCAP should be about how the car performs in a catastrophic collision - how well the passenger cell protects the occupants.

If they want to rate gadgets for dopes who can't drive, make it a different scoring system, and have 2 raticings - ANCAP Passive, that rates the body structure, and ANCAP Active, that can cover the gadgets.

A (compulsory) system that rates things that drivers have eyes for, with more importance than structural integrity, is, in JC's words, Bull Shyte.
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What's the point of ANCAP anymore. Seams like one car gets a low rating because it's missing something while a different cars which is missing the same thing gets 5 stars.

I have never once considered safety ratings when buying a car.
Most cars are pretty safe these days.
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Just confirms my opinion he's an unprofessional biased grub.
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Default Re: ANCAP zb commodore rating

Companies have been caught not providing RH passengers as much protection as LH ones, as proven by latest IIHS crash tests involving RH offset crash tests.

You have to wonder if that would be still the case the RHD cars...

RHD cars need to be tested here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72caLypmKCA
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Old 13-02-2018, 02:24 PM   #14
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Default Re: ANCAP zb commodore rating

Not only that, but Ford had extra reinforcement just for the crew cab versions of the F150 a few years back. Coincidentally as the highest-selling versions, they were the ones that crash tests were done on.

http://www.autonews.com/article/2015...new-crash-test
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Old 16-02-2018, 09:55 PM   #15
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Default Re: ANCAP zb commodore rating

cops seemed to like it
https://www.wheelsmag.com.au/news/18...police-academy
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Cannot see it being an issue as a police vehicle.They are quite common in the UK (Vauxhall Insignia) Cheers
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Old 17-02-2018, 08:27 AM   #17
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Default Re: ANCAP zb commodore rating

Didn't the Kia Carnival get a lower score in RHD compared to LHD not too long ago.
They had to do some investigating and mods to sort it out.
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