RECENT data from STRADA (Swedish Traffic Accident Data Acquisition) shows that modern Volvos have an almost 60 per cent lower injury rate than the average modern car sold in Sweden.
In fact, the current Volvo V40 was awarded Euro NCAP’s highest ever score when it was subjected to the organisation’s stringent crash tests back in 2012. And the future looks brighter still, as Volvo continues its aim for no one to be killed or seriously injured in any of its new cars by the year 2020.
modern Volvos have an almost 60 per cent lower injury rate than the average car sold in Sweden
Business car managers who want the safest new cars on the market should look towards Volvo’s new Scalable Product Architecture (SPA). The program gives drivers a look at the safety technology that will embrace cars such as the new Volvo XC90 and refreshed Volvo S80 over the next few years.
The new SPA technology aims to protect drivers in worst-case scenarios, providing innovative features that not only protect occupants involved in accidents, but avoid them occurring in the first place.
Jan Ivarsson, Volvo Safety Strategy and Requirements Manager, said: “We retain our uncompromising attitude to offering superior crash protection, but the new architecture opens up for further improvements.”
For example, the safety cage in the 2015 Volvo XC90 will feature 40 per cent hot-formed steel – making it significantly stronger (but no heavier) than the current model. The original Volvo XC90 contained just seven per cent hot-formed boron steel.
