Safety is always one of Mercedes-Benz’s selling point. So you will understand back in August.14, 2012, when IIHS (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety) released its first batch results for the small overlap frontal crash test on several entry-level compact luxury sedans, in which the Mercedes-Benz C-Class got the lowest “Poor” rating, Mercedes-Benz quickly release an official response expressing its strong objection of the IIHS test, by saying:
“As a leader in automotive safety, we have full confidence in the protection that the C-Class affords its occupants — and less confidence in any test that doesn’t reflect that”
Compared to the US IIHS, people in the European car safety organization seems to be more lenient, for example the Euro NCAP: most cars usually get very good results in their crash test report. And one thing Euro NCAP is lacking when compared to the IIHS result is, it does not publish detailed data and measurement values for the testing.
The 2015 GLA-Class has started to appear in US dealerships, although IIHS has not released any testing result for the GLA-Class, Euro NCAP did published its crash testing result recently.
In the report, Euro NCAP claimed there is no A-pillar rearward deformation, no steering wheel rearward and upward movements, no footwell collapsel; the only place that moves during the frontal crash is the brake pedal’s rearward movement by 18mm. Of course, the GLA got an overall 5-star rating.
While there is no meaningful detailed measurement data available, we can still visually “inspect” how the GLA performs under different crash scenarios, in the below gallery.
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