The new Mitsubishi Triton has been awarded the utmost 5 stars within the Australasian New Automobile Evaluation Program (ANCAP). The Triton is the primary dual-cab pick-up truck to be examined and assessed in opposition to ANCAP’s present 2023-2025 ranking standards. The outcomes apply to all 2WD and 4WD Double Cab variants bought in Australia and New Zealand.
Launched within the two nations in February, the Triton demonstrated excessive ranges of safety for the motive force, front-seat grownup passenger and little one occupants within the majority of bodily crash checks. Most scores had been achieved by the passenger within the frontal offset check, the motive force within the full width frontal and indirect facet pole checks, and each little one dummies within the frontal and facet influence checks.
Alternatives for enchancment had been famous for the chest and higher legs of the smaller rear passenger within the full width frontal check the place a ‘Weak’ chest rating was recorded and a penalty utilized for elevated danger of belly harm on this crash state of affairs.
As a part of the suite of harmful checks, ANCAP assesses the potential danger of harm to occupants of one other car if struck by the examined car. The Triton was proven to pose a comparatively reasonable danger in contrast with different automobiles of its sort.
In line with ANCAP, this means a thought-about design by Mitsubishi, which minimises the danger the Triton poses to different street customers. This thought-about strategy to design was additionally evident within the pedestrian influence checks, the place the grill and bumper scored nicely in evaluation of danger to a pedestrian’s leg or pelvis.
“This ranking demonstrates Mitsubishi’s willpower and talent to design, construct and ship a five-star product. Twin cab utes are a few of the highest-selling fashions in Australia and New Zealand – bought in quantity by common customers and fleet patrons alike. In lots of circumstances, they’re a tool-of-trade car, but they’re additionally household staples, so it’s pleasing to see Mitsubishi try for and obtain this five-star outcome,” stated ANCAP CEO Carla Hoorweg.
“There’s a longtime and well-recognised market expectation for five-star automobiles among the many ute phase. The aspiration of producers to realize five-stars ought to prolong throughout all market segments, not simply these focused by fleet patrons,” she added.
In collision avoidance testing, the Triton managed 70% – the rating threshold for a five-star ranking. The truck’s autonomous emergency braking (AEB) system is able to detecting/responding to different automobiles, pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists in a mixture of eventualities; nonetheless it doesn’t prolong to the extra subtle AEB eventualities equivalent to avoidance in T-bone intersection crashes and head-on crashes. This restricted its general Security Help rating.
Driver Monitoring Techniques (DMS) are additionally inspired inside the Security Help space of evaluation, and the Triton affords a direct DMS as normal.
“Direct driver monitoring techniques are comparatively new throughout the market, with the Triton being one of many first direct DMS techniques we’ve assessed regionally. The Triton met ANCAP protocol necessities in alerting for fatigue and distraction, nonetheless Mitsubishi’s implementation of this technique may very well be improved by decreasing pointless warnings to the motive force,” Hoorweg stated.
Along with visible warnings, the producer can select between haptic or audible DMS warnings in an effort to rating factors beneath ANCAP protocols. Distraction warnings when reversing, parking or throughout slow-speed manoeuvres beneath 10 km/h should not required or rewarded by ANCAP.
Already crash examined in ASEAN and launched in Thailand – the place it’s made and exported – the Triton will get a brand new 2.4-litre engine codenamed 4N16, provided in three states of tune – 150 PS/330 Nm, 184 PS/430 Nm and 204 PS/470 Nm. The range-topping Athlete that we featured at BIMS 2024 will get probably the most highly effective engine, mated to MMC’s Tremendous Choose 4WD-II system with Energetic Yaw Management (AYC). The brand new Triton is about to attain Malaysia earlier than the tip of 2024.
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