NEW DELHI: The fourth production Kia Carnival played with a healthy 5-star in the Australasian crash test evaluation (ANCAP).
All versions of this eight-seat Kia Carnival attained good scores throughout the array of occupant protection and crash avoidance evaluation areas, educated Australasia’s individual voice on automobile security.
The Carnival in addition gives a well-rounded security specification, offering head-protecting airbags and smart seatbelt reminders for all three seats, autonomous crisis braking, lively lane maintaining, and tiredness tracking as standard.
The Carnival performed especially well for Mature Occupant Protection, together with highest points scored at the side effect and rectal pole evaluations, and excellent scores from the difficult MPDB frontal offset and full-width rectal evaluations.
Maximum points were awarded for Child Occupant Protection (COP) from the frontal offset and side impact tests.
Crashes in the other side is the point where the Carnival watched the maximumAs section of ANCAP’s COP evaluation, the capacity to securely set up and adapt a selection of average child restraints can also be assessed — an important factor given the Carnival will be very likely to be employed by households with several young kids.
The Carnival is outfitted with high tether and ISOFix anchorages for all its six back seating positions, providing owners a broad array of choices for the installation of child restraints.
The child restraint setup evaluation revealed that many restraints might be fitted in such places, but it was noticed that among those Form A convertible restraints couldn’t be installed in rearward-facing mode utilizing the ISOFix anchorages at the next row outboard seats or even the next seating row.
Furthermore, the matching of any child restraint at the next row center position isn’t recommended as a result of absence of high tether and ISOFix anchorages in this place.
Notably, functionality testing of this autonomous crisis braking (AEB) system revealed very good results with crashes prevented or mitigated in most vehicle-to-vehicle test situations.
In the same way, the Carnival’s capacity to detect and respond to pedestrians had been Good, whilst cyclists detection was ranked as Adequate.
“The evaluation for your Kia Carnival was highly anticipated by households, fleet buyers and hire car businesses, and Kia will be congratulated for this particular outcome,” explained ANCAP Chief Executive Officer, Carla Hoorweg.
“Security is crucial from the People Mover segment granted that the main usage of those vehicles in hauling a great number of passengers.
It is pleasing to find the latest version releases into this section, such as the Carnival, also have factored security to the principles of the layout and specification.
This isn’t a section in which security ought to be compromised”
