That’s the 2018 model, so quite old. I wouldn’t expect this latest model to perform much worse than that though and I wouldn’t be surprised if it performs even better. Here’s the side view - it doesn’t look as low and angled at the front as the 2018 model, but you can still see that it’s been designed with not killing pedestrians in mind:
Ever more restrictive crash regs from the EU have reduced the size of the glass house on modern cars and required that the bonnet is higher to protect both the cars occupants but also pedestrians. There is actual science behind it. It’s not the same as the pretty much unregulated American monster trucks.
I do however agree that this should have stayed a small hatch back and not morphed into a SUV.
I don’t really understand American car categories, such as SUV, but anyway, older models of the Nissan Leaf have done well in the “Vulnerable Road Users” (VRU) part of crash tests, with the most recent model on the Euro NCAP site scoring 71% in the VRU Protection category.
That’s the 2018 model, so quite old. I wouldn’t expect this latest model to perform much worse than that though and I wouldn’t be surprised if it performs even better. Here’s the side view - it doesn’t look as low and angled at the front as the 2018 model, but you can still see that it’s been designed with not killing pedestrians in mind:
Looks like a kiddie killer to me, bonnet is way too high, can’t see shit out the back.
Looks fugly to boot.
Ever more restrictive crash regs from the EU have reduced the size of the glass house on modern cars and required that the bonnet is higher to protect both the cars occupants but also pedestrians. There is actual science behind it. It’s not the same as the pretty much unregulated American monster trucks.
I do however agree that this should have stayed a small hatch back and not morphed into a SUV.