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Already pinned during tests in Brazil and India, the Renault Kwid, for example, only obtained 2 stars in the Safer car for Africa NCAP.
These poor results were recorded when Renault has already made changes to the driver and passenger airbags.
In 2018, Suzuki's Indian subsidiary Maruti had come under heavy criticism after crash tests of its local version of the Swift, which had only collected 2 stars during the exercise.
Maruti Swift - DR
According to NCAP and its technical director Alejandro Furas, manufacturers use different standards in different markets in the construction of cars, whether in terms of the quality of the steels or those of the welds.
The organization points to the disparities in manufacturing between a Renault Kwid planned for the Brazilian market and that for India: the first has more reinforcements.
For NCAP, there is an urgent need to impose minimum safety standards globally in order to make cars safer.
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