The Zoe rating highlights how its not just the cars ability to protect its occupants with crush/crumple zones etc...autonomous braking, lane assist etc etc also play a central part in the rating.
Not so long ago, a car would get a 5 star rating without those safety features.
Put that same car through now and it wouldnt get a 5 star.
TBF, the Dacia may have a quite capable chassis /crumple zones etc...but without those safety features, the safety rating plummets. That doesnt neccessarily make it dangerous...you'd have to compare it with cars made before the introduction of those features to get a real idea.
Have you guys actually watched and seen the NCAP crash test for these 0-1 star cars?
These cars offer frankly ridiculous poor passenger/driver protection in the actual crash tests, its not just the lack of active safety aids.
There is zero excuse for designing/building a car in this day and age with such poor structural crash protection, the reality is when you are driving around with your family in one of these cars everyone else is driving around in something much much safer. Unless people here are seriously suggesting they don't care about the safety of their family, you have to be mad to buy one of these things over a 5 star car like the Fiesta.
I was on my way to nursery when a suicidal Seat driver decided give way signs didn't apply to him, he hit my car exactly on the rear passenger door where my daughter sits. His car was a clear write off, but on the face of it the passenger side of my car survived amazingly well, so much so even the complex rear doors still worked. The energy of the crash was all transferred to the subframe of the car, which meant the car ended up been written off - chassis was cracked, but the passenger cabin was pretty much pristine.
You guys can carry one pretending 0-1 star NCAP crash tested cars are 'safe' but I wouldn't carry my family around in anything but the safest car I can afford. There are simply too much idiots on the roads.
