On March 7, C-NCAP officially released the crash test evaluation of dongfeng Citroen Versailles C5 X.
Judging from the evaluation report, Dongfeng Citroen Versailles C5 X has shown good comprehensive strength in the three major safety areas of passive safety, active safety and pedestrian protection, and has obtained a five-star safety evaluation.
The performance is very Versailles
Judging from the information released, in the frontal crash test, the cabin area of the Citroën Versailles C5 X collapsed correctly, and the crew compartment structure performed excellently without any deformation.
The entire vehicle glass and the double front wheels were not damaged after the collision was completed. The dummy in the car was in proper contact with the airbag in the event of a collision, the seat belt provided correct and reasonable seat belt limits, and the seat was not separated from the body.
After the collision is completed, the doors open normally and the dummy does not have the risk of injury.
It is worth noting that after the completion of the collision, the curling of the hood surface of the Dongfeng Citroen Versailles C5 X is in a circular state, rather than a polyline state.
This is not to say that it is strong or weak, but this at least shows that Dongfeng Citroen is careful when it comes to the passive safety development of the C5 X.
In the side impact experiment, the body structure of the Dongfeng Citroen Versailles C5 X was well maintained, and the side window glass did not crack.
Unlike frontal collisions, side bumps do not provide a large enough collision buffer and can only ensure the safety of occupants in the car through better load transfer paths and rigid structures.
Judging from the results of the end of the side impact, the versailles C5 X test has a high degree of visual integrity, and only slight deformation occurs in areas such as B-pillars and sills.
When the collision occurs, the side air curtain and side air bag are correctly deployed, which ensures that the occupant's head, torso and body parts are minimally impacted, and the side window glass is intact during the side collision process, which also avoids the risk of secondary damage caused by glass fragments.
In the offset collision, the cabin of the Citroën Versailles C5 X collapsed reasonably and did not invade the cockpit. The A-pillar and firewall structure remain intact.
The airbag in the car is correctly deployed, the dummy in the car does not come into contact with the external hard object, and the airbag and the air curtain are correctly contacted until the collision is completed, and the door can be opened correctly after the collision is completed.
Similarly, in the whipping experiment, the seat of the Citroën Versailles C5 X was able to fully guarantee the head and neck safety of the passengers in the car.
It is not difficult to find that in the crash test of C-NCAP, dongfeng Citroen Versailles C5 X performed beyond the highest standards stipulated in the outline.
This means that as a global car, Dongfeng Citroen Versailles C5 X also takes more into account the differences in different test procedures in the global market and completes the development of passive safety according to higher standards.
According to Citroën's official data, the body of the Versailles C5 X is designed according to the high safety standards of different road conditions and environments around the world, and the proportion of high-strength steel used in the body exceeds 80%.
Key components such as pillar B are made of 500+1500MPa of unequal strength thermoformed steel, and the two are combined by TEB laser welding process.
The A-pillar adopts four-layer thermoforming technology, and the lower part of the A-pillar is reinforced to ensure the occupant structure and reasonable load transfer path in the car. These special designs allow it to meet higher safety standards.
Another notable point is that in recent years, active safety configurations have begun to become a major factor in determining vehicle safety.
The development of vehicle safety is also gradually shifting from passive safety to active safety to avoid accidents. To this end, both the NCAP system and the insurance industry association system have added active safety test evaluation standards.
On the Citroën Versailles C5 X, it is equipped with an advanced driver assistance system that can be activated at the touch of a button, including adaptive cruise with auto-follow function, LPA lane positioning assistance, LCA lane change assist, and SLI speed limit information reminder function. It has a high level of self-perception and the ability to avoid collisions.
On this basis, the Versailles C5 X's advanced driver assistance system further improves the vehicle's smoothness. LPA Lane Positioning Assist can not only assist the vehicle not to deviate from the existing lane, but also assist the driver to improve the driving route and ensure the driving stability of the vehicle.
In addition, Dongfeng Citroen Versailles C5 X is also equipped with the Clean Cabin intelligent cleaning cockpit, which effectively filters more than 99% of PM2.5 particles, and the C-Connect 3.0 intelligent network connection system encrypts data through CAN bus authentication, further realizing the safety of personnel health and information in the car.
Global car quality
As the first vehicle safety evaluation standard launched in a standard system in China, C-NCAP's crash rule requirements have become the standard for domestic automotive companies to lead safety development many years ago.
This is like an exam, the exam syllabus stipulates the scope of the exam, naturally there will be no candidates to learn the content outside the exam syllabus, and to take the exam, it must be to run to the high score.
Therefore, the products developed by automobile companies are developed in accordance with the five-star evaluation standards formulated by C-NCAP, and the increase in five-star models is precisely the performance of the overall progress of safety in China's automobile industry.
For the Citroën Versailles C5 X, there is another reason for choosing the C-NCAP for its first crash tests.
According to Citroën's plan, the Versailles C5 X will be the first to be listed in the Chinese market, and Dongfeng Citroën's Chengdu plant will also serve as the world's only plant for the Versailles C5 X, supplying the world.
In Citroën's global market layout, EU countries are an important market.
It won't be long before the Chinese-made Citroen Versailles C5 X will cross the ocean to be listed in Europe.
Listing in Europe must meet the European crash safety regulations, and the main safe collision regulations implemented in Europe are E-NCAP.
As an international organization, NCAP has evolved E-NCAP in Europe, C-NCAP in China, J-NCAP in Japan, A-NCAP in Australia and so on under the premise of basic collision evaluation principles and according to the actual situation of different countries and regions. The crash test results of these branches, the common part is mutually recognized.
Therefore, for the Citroën Versailles C5 X, which is about to be sold globally, the C-NCAP test at this time will be more in line with the logic of global product launch.
Of course, now there is also a C-IASI crash test procedure introduced by the Insurance Industry Association, and the weight of this crash test system has also been raised in the development process of the enterprise, so the most likely event is that the next Versailles C5 X is also expected to be tested by C-IASI.
Overall, the Citroën Versailles C5 X's safety design goes beyond the standards of C-NCAP, which is also the product quality it should have as a global car.