Euro NCAP awards 5-star rating to Jaguar’s XE and all-new XF models

Tata Motors-owned Jaguar XE and all-new Jaguar XF saloons have been awarded the highest five star rating in Euro NCAP’s 2015 safety tests.

The XE and XF scored highly in every category – Adult Occupant, Child Occupant, Pedestrian and Safety Assist.

Both the Jaguar models also benefit from a range of active safety systems including Autonomous Emergency Braking (fitted as standard in Europe), which uses a forward-facing stereo camera to detect vehicles which could pose a threat of collision: the system can give the driver visual and audible warnings and automatically apply the brakes if a collision is deemed imminent.

Commenting on the rating Kevin Stride, vehicle line director, Jaguar XE, XF, F-PACE said, “The XE and XF were engineered without compromise: we placed just as much focus on safety as we did on dynamics, performance, refinement and efficiency, and our stringent in-house standards far exceed the requirements of legislative and consumer tests.

Everything from the aluminium alloys we developed for the body structures to the state-of-the-art stereo camera at the heart of the Autonomous Emergency Braking system has been painstakingly optimised to deliver world-class levels of safety.”

The XE and XF are developed from Jaguar’s lightweight aluminium architecture, further enhanced by driver and passenger airbags, side airbags and curtain airbags. In the event of an impact with pedestrians, deployable bonnets help to mitigate serious injuries.

Both models offer dynamic stability control, traction control, emergency brake assist, lane departure warning, blind spot monitoring, closing vehicle sensing, reverse traffic detection, traffic sign recognition and adaptive cruise control.

Additional features offered in the XF – and which will be offered in the 2017 Model Year XE – include Lane Keep Assist, Driver Condition Monitor and Adaptive Speed Limiter.