{"id":10403,"date":"2021-02-03T22:23:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=10403"},"modified":"2021-02-03T22:23:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:23:02","slug":"global-ncaps-first-five-star-car-in-africa-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/global-ncaps-first-five-star-car-in-africa-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Global NCAP\u2019s first five-star car in Africa revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Safety organisation Global NCAP has announced the Mahindra XUV300 as its first five-star car in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The XUV300 achieved a five-star rating for the Indian market in 2020. Global NCAP\u2019s Indian and African programmes share the same assessment protocols and, following a production compliance review, the rating has been confirmed for the model\u2019s rollout in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a milestone event for the #SaferCarsforAfrica project, and signals that it is possible to achieve this excellent rating for vehicles in our market,\u201d said Willem Groenewald, AA South Africa CEO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are particularly pleased that this rating has been achieved through a compliance review. We applaud the fact that there is a reasonably priced five-star vehicle available in Africa which gives consumers a safe choice when purchasing a new car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The #SaferCarsForAfrica Campaign was launched by Global NCAP in 2017 with the objective of promoting safer vehicles across the continent of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The full crash test report can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalncap.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SaferCarsForAfrica-Mahindra-XUV-300-fact-sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safety organisation Global NCAP has announced the Mahindra XUV300 as its first five-star car in Africa. The XUV300 achieved a five-star rating for the Indian market in 2020. Global NCAP\u2019s Indian and African programmes share the same assessment protocols and, following a production compliance review, the rating has been confirmed for the model\u2019s rollout in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":10404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}