Trucksales Staff•14 May 2016
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Mercedes-Benz Vito gets five-star safety
Managing director says the five-star ANCAP result makes for a much safer workplace for driversMercedes-Benz says that in 2009 the Vito was given the first ever five-star rating for a light commercial van by the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP). The luxury passenger Viano and Valente variants were, at the same time, granted the rating by ANCAP.
With the development of more stringent and detailed assessment criteria by ANCAP with date stamping of results it was time for the new Vito, V-Class and Valente to be rated by ANCAP.
This year, ANCAP has again recognised the new Vito with a five-star ANCAP rating for all Vitos equipped with side impact airbags. Currently these side impact bags are optional in Vito and any Vito so equipped is rated as a five-star vehicle.
Any Vito ordered from today (July production) will share the five-star ANCAP rating of the current V-Class and Valente passenger vehicles which are rated as five-star by ANCAP.
Commenting on the rating, Managing Director, Mercedes-Benz Vans, Diane Tarr (pictured), said: "Our Van customers will continue to enjoy the same safety technologies as passenger car drivers, and we have worked closely with ANCAP since the launch of the current Vito to ensure that we would achieve the more stringent and detailed assessment criteria to achieve a five-star rating.
"We have, since launch, experienced a good take-up rate of the side airbag option on Vito, vehicles so equipped are rated as five-star. However we wanted to lift the bar even higher so we have worked with the factory to overcome production limitations and negotiated hard to make side impact bags standard equipment from July and as such, all Vitos ordered from today will be rated as five-star.
As a company we are proud that this five-star result makes for a much safer workplace available to the many thousands of van drivers who spend long working days in their vehicles all over Australia.
"After all, these vans are peoples' workplaces and making side airbags standard means our Vitos' safety will make a real-world difference to their work place safety every single day," Ms Tarr concluded.
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