THE new Range Rover and Range Rover Sport have been awarded maximum five-star ratings in the latest Euro NCAP safety tests.
The luxury SUVs draw on more than 50 years of expertise in delivering exceptional breadth of all-terrain capability, refinement and safety.
The new models are the latest in a long line of Range Rovers to gain the rating under the stringent Euro NCAP star safety protocols introduced in 2009, stretching back to the Evoque in 2011.
Both models are based on a new mixed-metal, flexible modular longitudinal architecture that provides solid foundations for a suite of state-of-the-art driver assistance technologies to work in harmony for a responsive and refined drive.
New Range Rover, available with four, five and seven-seat configurations, is up to 50% stiffer than its predecessor while the Range Rover Sport is 35% stiffer than before.
The award-winning New Range Rover scored 87% for child occupant protection and 72% for vulnerable road users while the Range Rover Sport achieved an 85% for adult occupant protection. Both SUVs obtained 82% for safety assist.
Thomas Mueller, executive director of product engineering at Jaguar Land Rover, said: “These excellent results are a direct result of the hard work and expertise that goes into designing, engineering and manufacturing SUVs that have combined safety, capability and luxury for more than five decades.”
The vehicles share a range of advanced systems designed to support the driver and protect occupants, including:
• Lane keep assist – monitors the road lane markings to detect unintentional departure. If the car is about to cross a lane boundary, a rotational force is applied to the steering wheel to counter the boundary-crossing movement.
• Emergency lane keep assist – helps to provide corrective steering inputs if it determines that the vehicle is getting too close to edges and drifting towards an adjacent lane where oncoming cars are detected.
• 3D surround camera and clear sight ground view – the camera system provides a 3D, 360-degree view around the car and can display several views simultaneously on the touch screen display when manoeuvring. This gives the driver detailed information on their surroundings. Clear sight ground view allows drivers to see the hidden area directly ahead of, and beneath, the bonnet on the central touch screen display.
• Driver condition response – brings the vehicle to a halt and initiates the hazard warning lights if the driver fails to respond to a series of audio-visual prompts.
• Rear collision monitor with occupant protection assist – uses the front and rear corner radars to detect collision risks within 70m and warn occupants, sounding an audible warning and preparing the cabin for a potential impact. If required, the hazard lights will flash and interior is primed by tensioning the seat belts, moving the head rests forwards, inclining the seats and closing the windows and panoramic roof.
• Pre-emptive suspension – the suspension automatically switches to dynamic mode when the forward collision warning system detects a collision risk, assisting the driver if evasive manoeuvres are required by delivering the most agile responses.
• Adaptive cruise control and steering assist – it maintains a set cruising speed for the vehicle. Its speed automatically reduces if a slower-moving car is detected in the lane ahead. Steering assist helps the driver keep the car in the centre of its lane by making minor steering adjustments.
• Park assist – detects available parking spaces and manoeuvres the car into parallel and perpendicular spaces. Park assist controls the vehicle during a manoeuvre using the steering, acceleration, gear selection and braking.
Alongside the active safety systems, both SUVs are also available with cabin air purification pro1 – a pioneering system that takes interior air quality to the next level.
