The New Car Assessment Programme for Southeast Asian Countries (ASEAN NCAP) has released a star rating versus price (on-the-road inclusive of insurance) chart, comparing the affordability of each car vis-a-vis their occupant protection.
And, surprise surprise, the cheapest car with a five-star safety rating in Adult Occupant Protection (AOP) is the Proton Iriz – the national B-segment hatchback scored 14.07 points (out of a possible 16) in the frontal offset crash test and is equipped with stability control as standard, even in its most basic RM41,077 1.3 Standard M/T form.
In fact, Proton should be commended for having not one, not two, but three of the cheapest five-star cars in the country, with the RM57,686 Preve Executive M/T and the RM75,749 Suprima S Executive, both with six airbags and stability control. It has to be noted, however, that there's a cheaper Suprima S Standard with two airbags and no ESP, which gets its rating bumped down to four stars.
Elsewhere, the RM85,500 Ford Fiesta 1.5 Titanium/Sport, RM86,985 Honda Jazz 1.5V and RM89,467 Honda City 1.5V make up the non-national offerings under RM100k. There are class dynamics at play too – a five-star-rated Honda Civic 1.8 S can be had at RM113,198, but you'll need to spend RM133,715 on a Toyota Corolla 2.0V with the Additional Safety Package to get the same rating.
Moving down to four stars, Perodua dominates the cheap end of the scale, with the RM24,437 Axia Standard E M/T, the RM40,862 Myvi Standard G M/T and the RM52,332 Alza SX M/T beating out the RM54,888 Kia Picanto 1.2 M/T, even though the latter has six airbags, ABS and ESP which the P2 cars don't have.
Most base model cars without stability control, such as the RM71,774 Jazz 1.5S, RM74,007 City 1.5S and the RM113,930 Corolla 1.8E, also fall into this category. Also interesting to see is the difference in ratings between two nearly identical vehicles – the Chevrolet Colorado pick-up gets five stars, but its Isuzu D-Max sibling only receives four stars, despite both being tested with ESP.
Also released is the chart for Child Occupant Protection (COP) – here, the Nissan Teana is the only car that has achieved a five-star rating. Most of the other cars on the chart get four stars, with the Axia and Myvi beating the Iriz in terms of price.
Only seven cars (Proton Saga FLX+, Preve and Suprima S, Nissan Almera, Ford Fiesta, Chevrolet Colorado and Subaru XV) get three stars, and only six cars get two stars. Shockingly, half of the latter are seven-seat MPVs and SUVs, cars which are more likely to carry children; these include the Alza, the Toyota Avanza and the Mitsubishi Pajero Sport.
To view the full ASEAN NCAP crash test results on all vehicles tested (and Euro NCAP and ANCAP scores too), visit our sister site CarBase.my.
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