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Courtesy of GoAuto

By DANIEL DeGASPERI
THE Australasian New Car Assessment
Program (ANCAP) will not retest the
Ford Mustang following its shock two star
safety result, despite an update to
airbag deployment and active safety
features that crippled its score.
Instead, the vehicle safety watchdog
will revise the Ford sportscar’s score
to three stars in light of the updates.
Sales of the Ford Mustang have
remained unaffected by the twostar
ANCAP result handed down in
December 2015, and it continues to be
Australia’s top-selling sportscar as it
heads towards a mid-year switch to a
facelifted model.
The original test score raised
questions not only directed towards
Ford, but also ANCAP owing to a
testing procedure that had changed
significantly.
While 2+2 coupes would now be
tested for back-seat performance,
despite the Toyota 86 among others
having not been tested with rear child
seats, the top overall score could also
be no higher than the lowest score of
four criteria (occupant protection front,
rear, pedestrian and active safety).