Chery Tiggo 7 & Tiggo 8 PHEV Earn 5-Star Rating from Euro NCAP

The Chery Tiggo 7 and Tiggo 8 PHEV CSH duo earned a full five-star safety rating from Euro NCAP.

Chery’s new plug-in hybrid (PHEV) duo, the Chery Tiggo 7 and Tiggo 8 PHEV CSH, had just earned a full five-star score in the Euro NCAP crash test protocol in their latest round of assessment.

For this reassessment test, the PHEV SUV duo has improved their overall scores, earning 82% in the Adult Occupant category, 85% in the Child Occupant category, 80% in the Vulnerable Road User category, and 78% in the Safety Assist category.

Both SUVs previously scored a four-star rating from the same protocol earlier in July of this year, where Euro NCAP identified that the SUVs failed to provide adequate protection to a child’s head in the event of a side impact.

Following these suggestions from Euro NCAP, the Wuhu-based automaker redesigned the protection system in both SUVs, and the issue was found to be resolved during the reassessment test, thus granting both of them the full five-star rating.

“It is pleasing for Euro NCAP to highlight yet another example of a car manufacturer responding positively to the findings of our rigorous, independent safety tests. Chery acted swiftly to address the fault we identified, and the resulting fix has raised the Tiggo to a five-star rating. Striving toward the highest possible safety rating is in the consumer’s best interest,” said Dr. Aled Williams, programme director of Euro NCAP.

This latest rating from Euro NCAP extends Chery’s track record of scoring five stars in numerous safety tests around the world, with the automaker previously recording five-star scores in the Australasian New Car Assessment Programme (ANCAP) with the Aussie-spec Chery Tiggo 7 Pro and Tiggo 8 Pro Max, as well as in the ASEAN NCAP protocol with the Chery Omoda 5.

Beyond these crash test protocols, Chery has also put its cars under numerous tests as part of its global safety challenge. Earlier this year, the Tiggo 7 PHEV survived a high-speed battery scrape test in Mexico, while the Tiggo 8 PHEV’s battery was submerged in seawater for more than 50 hours in a battery immersion test in Indonesia.