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5-Star Ranger!

Author: Trent NikolicDate: 28 October 2011
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By doing so, the Ranger made history and has become the highest scoring pickup ever with an overall mark of 89 percent in the Euro NCAP testing. Perhaps even more impressively, the Ranger achieved the highest rating of any vehicle ever tested by Euro NCAP for pedestrian protection (81 percent).

“Vehicle safety is a core value at Ford Motor Company and these independent test results confirm that not only is Ranger the highest rated vehicle in its class, it is also one of the highest rated vehicles ever assessed by Euro NCAP,” said Stephen Odell, chairman and CEO, Ford of Europe. “No one wants to be involved in an accident but if the worst were to happen, the new Ranger is proven to provide outstanding protection to occupants of all ages as well as pedestrians."

Michiel van Ratingen, Euro NCAP secretary general, was impressed with the Ranger’s performance as you’d expect. "With such good pedestrian protection, the Ford Ranger is undoubtedly raising the bar of safety in the category of pickup trucks, which had until now not proven to be the safest."

There’s any number of clever innovations that ensure the Ranger is as safe as it is, but central to these was the smilutaion work done during development of the vehicle. Using sophisticated computer modelling, engineers assessed more than 9,000 virtual crash tests before any of the 110 actual vehicle crash tests or 410 system sled tests were undertaken.

These virtual simulations allowed the engineers to optimise the vehicle structure and safety systems to provide the maximum levels of protection possible in a wide-range of real-world collisions. All this was achieved before any real prototype vehicle was built and subjected to crash testing.

 

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