Mazda CX-60 receives NASVA’s highest rating of Five Star Award for 2023 Automotive Safety Performance

On February 2, 2024, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and the National Agency for Automotive Safety and Victims’ Aid (NASVA) announced the results of an evaluation of Mazda’s automobile safety performance, and announced that the Mazda CX-60 had received the highest rating, the Five-Star Award.

“Automobile Assessment” evaluates and publishes automobile safety performance

The National Agency for Automotive Safety and Victims’ Aid (NASVA), a third-party organization, sets evaluation standards for automobile safety performance, and the Five Star Award is one of the highest safety performance evaluations given to cars that meet those standards. The Five Star Award represents a high evaluation of a car’s collision safety and advanced safety devices, and is an important indicator that consumers use as a reference when choosing a car.

Starting in fiscal 2020, these will be called “Automobile Safety Performance 2020,” and these will be evaluated comprehensively. The latest “Automobile Safety Performance 2022” will be announced in January 2023. Collision safety performance is scored out of 100 points, preventive safety performance out of 91 points (82 points for 2020-2021), and automatic accident emergency reporting systems out of 8 points, for a total score of 199 points (190 points for 2020-2021). However, to receive the highest rating, the “Five Star Award,” a vehicle must achieve the highest rating of A rank for collision safety performance and preventive safety performance, and be equipped with an automatic accident emergency reporting system.

From fiscal 2023, it will be called “Automobile Safety Performance 2023,” and from fiscal 2023, a new evaluation for pedestrian accidents will be introduced in the evaluation of “pedal misapplication acceleration suppression devices,” and the scoring will change in line with the change in the evaluation content.

Overseas, automobile safety evaluation organizations such as the European New Car Assessment Program (Euro NCAP) and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) evaluate automobile crashworthiness and advanced safety devices.

 Mazda CX-60 receives highest rating in 2023 Automotive Safety Performance Index

 The Mazda CX-60 received the highest rating, the Five Star Award, in the 7th release of the 2023 Automotive Safety Performance Report. The evaluation result was 186.77 points (out of 197). Preventive safety received 88.21 points (out of 89), collision safety received 90.57 points (out of 100), and the automatic accident emergency notification system received 8 points (out of 8).

Safe Car Ranking

When we rank the current models that will be released as of 2023 in order of NASVA’s overall ranking of vehicle safety performance, the Subaru Impreza Crosstrek, which received the highest score in the 2023 vehicle safety performance ranking, received the highest score and a five-star award. Next is the Toyota Crown Crossover, which highlights the high performance of its EyeSight system. Furthermore, the top rankings are dominated by recently released models, clearly showing how improvements in safety equipment have influenced the scores. The CX-60 came in fourth place.

*Please note: This ranking is based solely on overall score. For the reasons stated above, the overall score differs depending on the evaluation year. When viewing, please also consider the year and total score. Starting with “Automobile Safety Performance 2023,” a new evaluation for pedestrian accidents has been introduced in the evaluation of “pedal misapplication acceleration suppression devices.” As the scoring system has changed with the change in evaluation content, direct comparisons of the scores given to vehicles previously evaluated for safety performance are not possible.

*Based on the latest automobile information

NASVA News Release

https://www.mlit.go.jp/report/press/jidosha07_hh_000480.html

NASVA

https://www.nasva.go.jp/mamoru/assessment_car/detail/250