It has been a busy week of crashing cars at ANCAP with the 2016 Jaguar XE also awarded 5-stars by the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP).
Chief Executive Officer of ANCAP, James Goodwin said ” These vehicles demonstrate we are entering a new era of vehicle safety where the standard inclusion of safety assist technologies such as Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) will help to eliminate or reduce the severity of a crash”.
“The Jaguar scored well in physical testing and offers a suits of advanced safety features you would expect in a luxury vehicle including AEB as standard” said Mr Goodwin.
The 5-Star ANCAP safety rating follows a similar rating from the Euro NCAP testing system where the Jaguar XE walked away with best in class safety rating.
“The XE was engineered without compromise: we placed just as much focus on safety as we did on dynamics, performance, refinement and efficiency, and our stringent in-house standards far exceed the requirements of legislative and consumer tests.
“Everything from the aluminium alloys we developed for the body structures to the state-of-the-art stereo camera at the heart of the Autonomous Emergency Braking system has been painstakingly optimised to deliver world-class levels of safety.”
Kevin Stride, Vehicle Line Director, Jaguar XE, XF, F-PACE
All models of Jaguar XE offer a full suite of active safety technologies and advanced driver assistance systems* including Dynamic Stability Control, Traction Control, Emergency Brake Assist, Blind Spot Monitoring, Closing Vehicle Sensing and Reverse Traffic Detection.
