The recently facelifted Renault Megane is actually an old car that originally went on sale back in 2008. However, while it’s undeniably structurally sound, the most recent batch of EuroNCAP tests have seriously tarnished both its own and the manufacturer’s safety record.
Recently crashed for science, the refreshed Megane was awarded a meager three stars. One star was lost for its lack active crash culling gadgets, while another had to be crossed off because “the system for the rear seats uses text to inform the driver of the status of the rear seatbelts and, as this information was not available in all languages, the system failed EuroNCAP’s assessment”.
The official release read on that “with a compliant system, the Megane Hatch would have been rated as four stars overall.”
The Megane wasn’t the only car tested, though, and it wasn’t the only car to receive just three stars; the others that did so too were the MG3 supermini, Citroen C-Elysee and its sister model, the Peugeot 301.
Cars that fared better are the Ford Turneo Connect, which grabbed four stars, and the all-new VW Golf Sportvan – it achieved the maximum rating.
By Andrei Nedelea
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