Jaguar F-Pace gets five-star Euro NCAP crash test rating

The Jaguar F-Pace has added a five-star Euro NCAP rating to its 2017 World Car of the Year title. The performance SUV, which also won the 2017 World Car Design of the Year at the 2017 World Car Awards, scored 93 percent for adult occupant protection, 85 percent for child occupant protection and 80 percent for pedestrian protection.

The F-Pace features advanced safety technology such as Autonomous Emergency Braking with Pedestrian Detection, as standard, which can detect a collision risk with cars or pedestrians in the road ahead and automatically apply the brakes. The system performed well, scoring maximum points in pedestrian tests as well as avoiding or mitigating all of the inter-urban scenarios.

"The Jaguar F-Pace combines award-winning design and engineering with exceptional safety. The lightweight aluminium intensive body provides excellent protection alongside the dynamic performance customers expect from a Jaguar.  Improvements to active safety technologies, such as Forward Traffic Detection and Driver Condition Monitoring, ensured the F-Pace achieved the five-star Euro NCAP score," said Nick Rogers, executive director, Product Engineering, Jaguar Land Rover

The F-Pace has become the fastest-selling Jaguar ever, with the 100,000th vehicle recently rolling off the production line at Jaguar Land Rover’s Solihull manufacturing facility. The SUV features an aluminium intensive architecture with six airbags to create a super-strong occupant safety cell allied with a suite of advanced driver assistance systems. The combination of active and passive safety measures helped deliver an overall Euro NCAP rating of 85 percent.