Euro NCAP Crash Test Results

Test results and safety ratings

Smart Car Smart 1999

. , 2 door saloon

Test Date: Feb 2000

	Crash Star Rating
	Front-impact score Side-impact score Seat belt reminder Total score	7 (44.0%) 15 (83.0%) - 22
	Pedestrian Star Rating
	Pedestrian-test score	14 (39.0%)

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The Smart's many unusual features mark it out as a special car. Because of its size a great deal of effort has gone into its safety aspects, but not all work satisfactorily. The car is very strong and stiff in a frontal impact and sustained virtually no damage to the cabin. But the restraint systems have to work hard because of this stiffness and this showed in the loading on the passenger's chest and the driver's upper legs. Of concern in the side impact was that the dummy's head hit the rail above the door. As tests use a passenger dummy it was not possible to test the Smart child restraint, which is made to fit the passenger's seat.