On March 7, Dongfeng Citroen Versailles C5 X C-NCAP results were released, and won the C-NCAP "Five-Star" safety rating with its high comprehensive strength in the three major safety fields of passive safety, active safety and pedestrian protection. The high safety without shortcomings highlights the quality of this global model, and also expresses the design and development intention of versailles C5 X "people-oriented" and "escorting customers' safe travel".
Passive Safety Question: How to protect the safety of people in the car during rear-end collisions and collisions?
The Versailles C5 X is designed to meet high safety standards in accordance with the conditions and environments of different roads around the world. The use rate of high-strength steel throughout the body exceeds 80%, which not only ensures the strength of the body structural parts during the collision process, but also applies high-strength steel in various parts of the front, side, rear, roof and bottom of the vehicle, which seems to be a "waste of material" approach, in order to help versailles C5 X resist accidental impacts from different angles.
The bias crash test (common collision with a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction) not only puts forward high requirements for the absorption of energy at the front end of the vehicle, but also on the A-pillar area of the vehicle, the solidity of the roof and the bottom of the vehicle, and the rationality of the conducted collision energy.
After the impact, the cabin part of the front of the vehicle was deformed and collapsed, and no obvious deformation was observed from the A-pillar and the rear seating area of the firewall. The Versailles C5 X's A-pillar uses a special process, four-layer thermoforming technology and a lower A-pillar reinforcement scheme to ensure the robustness of the A-pillar in the event of a collision, thus ensuring the integrity of the occupant space. The high-strength steel on the bottom and roof of the car and the reasonable load transmission path setting, the occupants of the car will not have abnormal displacement at the moment of impact, creating a premise for airbags, seat belts, etc. to play a more effective role.
In whipping tests (common when a vehicle is rear-ended by a rear vehicle), the occupant's head swings back and forth at the moment of the collision, causing damage to the cervical spine tissue. The seat skeleton of the Versailles C5 X, in conjunction with the headrest, "stabilized" the occupant's body and "caught" the occupant's head in the event of a rear-end accident, also reducing the risk of injury to the occupants.
Active Safety Question: How to Reduce the Chance of Collisions?
Preventing problems before they occur is the key to reducing the occurrence of collisions. In the field of active safety, the L2.5 C-Pilot driver assistance system equipped with the Versailles C5 X has many functions that allow the owner to react as quickly as possible before the accident occurs in the vehicle, and the probability of an accident is minimized in milliseconds as the driver thinks.
Bonus question: How to ensure the health safety and information security of the people in the car?
Safety includes multiple dimensions and levels, and while structural safety and active safety are priorities, the health and information security of the occupant compartment in the vehicle cannot be ignored either. The Clean Cabin intelligent cleaning cockpit equipped with versailles C5 X can effectively filter more than 99% of PM2.5 particles, realize the optimal management of air quality in the cabin, ensure that the air in the car is fresh, and bring users and their families a clean and healthy interior environment.
Leading global standards for craftsmanship, hard-core quality continues to be authoritatively certified
The safety and global quality of the Versailles C5 X are inseparable from the profound car manufacturing heritage. As Citroën's first "Made in Chengdu , Global Sales" new flagship model, versailles C5 X uses the Chengdu plant as the global production base, adopts industry-leading technology and technology, and is developed based on the third-generation EMP2 platform, with solid hardcore body materials, green interiors and rigorous vehicle experiments to give the Versailles C5 X "reliable" global quality. Because of this, the Versailles C5 X won the "2021 China Top Ten Body" award at the end of last year, and on March 2 this year, 1222 Units of Versailles C5 X were exported to many parts of the world, officially embarking on a new journey of "global sales".
Professor Zhang Jinchang, Secretary-General of the Automotive Safety Technology Branch of the Society of Automotive Engineers of China and Director of the Automobile Collision Laboratory of the Key Laboratory of Automotive Safety and Energy Conservation of Tsinghua University, also gave high praise: "From organizing the implementation of the first collision of Fukang China, to witnessing the world's first collision of Versailles C5 X, Dongfeng Citroen's safe car and quality car are passed on from generation to generation, and it is constantly exceeding customer expectations."