Falcon crash rating

morrisjvan, Jan 14, 7:39am
Just glancing through the topgear magazine , and the ''normal'' Falcon apparantly is worthy of 5 star ancap rating, but the FPV varients only have a 4 star rating ! how does that work ! Does a black stripe really make that much difference !

fordcrzy, Jan 14, 7:42am
the star rating includes impact on pedestrians so sports cars generally do poorly with the aggressive styling and spoilers not being good when impacting stupid people on the road.

smac, Jan 14, 8:01am
Could also be what equipment is offered as standard, I don't know what is offered on FPV's. For example a car that has optional curtain airbags would rate lower than one where they are standard.

vtecintegra, Jan 14, 8:03am
Or it could be a mistake in the magazine

e. ANCAP doesn't seem to have tested the FPV models specifically so I'm not sure where the magazines scores come from

franc123, Jan 14, 9:35am
FPV buyers think they don't need seatbelts, they also think they're getting something vastly superior to their neighbours XR8 and its worth twice the price.

dave653, Jan 16, 2:23am
And, according to the ads on telly, if you remove the badges. it'll fall off the road!