Haval H6 Awarded ANCAP 5-Star Safety Rating

Haval H6 Awarded ANCAP 5-Star Safety Rating

ANCAP has awarded a five-star safety rating for the Haval H6 following completion of the latest round of testing.

According to ANCAP, the mid-sized SUV performed well across all areas of assessment, achieving solid scores for protection of adult occupants, children, pedestrians and cyclists. H6 also performed well for its ability to actively avoid or reduce the effects of a range of potential crashes through its onboard safety systems.

“This is an impressive achievement by GWM Haval,” said ANCAP Chief Executive Officer Carla Hoorweg.

“This is GWM’s first new Haval SUV model to the Australasian market for a number of years. Delivering a five-star vehicle to the market against ANCAP’s latest 2022 protocols demonstrates the brand has kept pace with the latest ANCAP safety standards and consumer safety expectations.”

Full points were scored for protection to the driver in side impact and oblique pole tests, and for front and rear-seat occupant whiplash protection. The H6 was also awarded full points for the front-seat passenger frontal offset test, but protection to the driver’s chest was scored as marginal, indicating some risk of chest injury based on dummy measurements. A penalty was also applied for the driver’s footwell, which showed some signs of loss of integrity in the frontal offset test.

Good performance was seen across all emergency lane keeping test scenarios, including the ability to avoid a run-off-road crash with an unmarked road edge. The H6’s car-to-car and car-to-cyclist autonomous emergency braking system also provided good levels of performance, as did its ability to prevent a collision with another vehicle in the turn-across-path intersection test scenario.

Child occupant protection and the ability of the H6 to safely accommodate a range of typical child restraints also scored highly.

“There has been a lot of interest in a safety rating for the H6, and this now provides consumers with an independent assessment of its safety performance,” Hoorweg said.

The five-star ANCAP safety rating applies to petrol H6 variants. The soon-to-be released H6 Hybrid is currently unrated.