Recently, the ANCAP (Australasian New Car Assessment Program) updated its rating criteria for 2020-2022. This meant, the test crash tests will now be much more strict and all the cars will undergo heavy scrutiny. Kia's 2021 Carnival was the latest to go through these tests and it passed with flying colours, as it managed to score full 5 stars in the various safety tests. The scores for the Kia Carnival were great across the range for occupant protection and collision avoidance assessment. The Carnival also gets various safety features like airbags, smart seat belt reminder for all eight seats, emergency braking, etc as standard.
The potential to efficiently position and incorporate an array of specific child safety precautions was also calculated as part of ANCAP’s assessment, which was very important considering this automobile is gonna be utilised by huge families with children because of its seating arrangement. The Carnival is included with top tether and ISOFIX anchorages for most of its rear seating positions, giving its drivers and passengers multiple ranges of options for the installation of child restraints. The child restraint installation test revealed that most restraints could be fitted in a very safe manner in these areas.
The Carnival MPV performed specifically good for Adult Occupant Protection and Child Occupant Protection (COP). The challenging MPDB side-impact and frontal offset test were given good scores as well. Considerably, performance evaluation of the Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) structure portrayed great results with impact upon collision avoiding any major damage in all vehicle-to-vehicle test scenarios. The Kia MPV was also able to detect pedestrians and come to a complete halt at an appropriate and adequate distance.
“The rating for the Kia Carnival has been highly anticipated by families, fleet buyers and hire car companies, and Kia is to be congratulated for this result,” said ANCAP Chief Executive Officer, Carla Hoorweg.
“Safety is critical in the People Mover segment given the primary use of these vehicles in transporting a large number of passengers. It’s pleasing to see the most recent model releases to this segment, including the Carnival, have factored safety into the fundamentals of their design and specification. This is not a segment in which safety should be compromised.”
“We’re hopeful upcoming models in this segment slated for release later this year will also strive to offer their customers an equivalent high level of safety,” Ms Hoorweg added.
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