Recently launched Citroen Basalt SUV Coupe was launched in India and the price of this car surprised everyone. The price of the new Basalt ranges from RS 7.99 lakh to RS 13.62 lakh. Citroën Basalt SUV Coupé has received a 4 star rating in the India New Car Assessment Program (India NCAP) crash test. Due to which this car Citroen Basalt has become the safest coupe SUV of India. This car is directly related to Tata cars, before this only Tata cars have been sold and it has got 5 star rating.
Basalt has become the fourth vehicle to be tested in BNCAP after Tata Safari, Harrier and Punch. Tata cars are considered very strong in terms of safety, But with 4 star safety rating, Basalt also claims better safety. All these Tata cars got 5 star safety rating in crash test. Which is applicable to all variants. In the crash test, the car scored 26.19 out of 32 focuses for grown safety and 35.90 out of 49 focuses for child safety.
Crash Test of All Four Variants
Basalt has scored 4-Star Safety Ratings in both Adult Occupant Protection as well as Child Occupant Protection in the latest Bharat NCAP crash tests.#bharatncap #safetyfirst #safetybeyondregulations #morestarssafercars #bncap pic.twitter.com/4u4fItZzuf
— Bharat NCAP (@bncapofficial) October 11, 2024
The car was crash tested in August, but BNCAP released its results yesterday (October 13). In the Bharat NCAP test, the safety features of the Basalt were tested through frontal and side-impact collisions. The SUV scored a full 16 points in the side crash test, conducted across different variants of the Basalt. This includes the U and Plus trims for the NA petrol trims, as well as the Plus and Max trims for the turbo-petrol trims. Manual and automatic transmission options of these trims were also tested.
During the frontal impact test, the Basalt performed well. Although it has good protection for the head and neck of the driver and front passenger, there appears to be minimal protection for the driver’s chest and thighs. However, the safety arrangements for the chest of the front passenger in the car were sufficient.
- Front test- In the frontal impact test conducted at a speed of 64kmph, Basalt got 10.19 points out of 16. In this, the head and neck protection of the driver and passenger was found to be safe. At the same time, the safety of the driver’s chest was minimal and the safety of the passenger’s chest was found satisfactory. In the test, the driver’s and passenger’s thighs gotten a minimal safety rating. Apart from this, the driver’s right leg was given adequate safety rating, left leg was given marginal and both toes were given adequate safety rating. At the same time, the right leg of the passenger was found to have good protection and the left leg was found to have adequate protection.
- Side Impact Test –The EV was subjected to a side affect test at a speed of 50kmph, in which it scored 16 out of 16. In this, the protection of the driver’s head, waist and hips was found to be quite safe, while the protection of the driver’s chest was also found to be good.
- Side Pole Test – In this test, the safety of the driver’s head, chest, waist and hips was found to be good. Based on the performance of these three tests, Citroen Basalt was given 26.19 points out of 32 and 5 star safety rating in the adult protection category.
- Child Safety- In the dynamic crash test for children, Basalt got 19.90 points out of 24. By using child restraint systems for an 18-month-old and a 3-year-old, Citroën shows that it is serious about the safety of underage passengers.
Safety Features of Citroen Basalt
You get many safety features as standard in Basalt. This car has six airbags, safety features like Electronic Stability Control (ESC), ISOFIX child seat anchors and three-point seat belts for all passengers. On the basis of these safety features and high-powered steel framework, the SUV managed to achieve 4 star safety rating in the crash test.
Crash Test Process
- For the test, 4 to 5 human-suchlike dummies are seated in the car. There is a child dummy on the art seat, which is fixed to the child ISOFIX anchor seat.2. The vehicle is collided with an offset deformable hedge (hard object) at a fixed speed to see how important damage is caused to the vehicle and the dummy. This is done in three ways.
- In the frontal affect test, the car is hit with a obstruction at a speed of 64 Kmph.
- In the side affect test, the vehicle is hit with a boundary at a speed of 50 Kmph.
- In the pole side impact test, the car will be seen hitting a pole at a fixed speed. If the car achieves 3 star rating in the first two tests, the third test is conducted.
- In the test, it is seen how important damage was done to the dummy after the impact, whether the airbags and safety features worked or not. Rating is given on the basis of all these.
