Genesis GV60 Earns Top Safety Rating in European Safety Assessment

[Asia Economy Reporter Hyunseok Yoo] Genesis's dedicated electric vehicle model GV60 has received the highest rating from the European New Car Assessment Programme.

Genesis announced on the 8th (Thursday) that the GV60, introduced in Europe last June, earned the highest five-star rating in Euro NCAP (New Car Assessment Programme), Europe's new car safety evaluation program.

With the GV60 achieving a five-star safety rating from Euro NCAP, Genesis has the honor of having all its models evaluated by Euro NCAP?including the G70, G70 Shooting Brake, G80, GV70, and GV80?receive five-star ratings.

Euro NCAP testing began in 1997 as a European new car evaluation program. It conducts safety verification tests on cars sold in Europe and publishes the results annually.

In this evaluation, the GV60 demonstrated outstanding safety by achieving the highest rating in the comprehensive assessment of four categories: adult occupant protection, child occupant protection, pedestrian protection, and safety assist systems.

Euro NCAP noted that the GV60 maintained a stable passenger compartment during frontal and side collision tests, effectively protecting the major body regions of both adult and child occupants.

In the side collision test, Hyundai Motor Group’s patented airbag, the ‘Center Side Airbag,’ deployed within 0.03 seconds, confirming good physical protection for the driver and front passenger.

The GV60 comes equipped with key advanced driver safety systems as standard, earning high scores in the safety assist system category. In particular, the Forward Collision-Avoidance Assist (FCA) was evaluated as helping safe driving by avoiding vehicle-to-vehicle collisions and effectively warning the driver by detecting pedestrians and cyclists.

Additionally, the GV60 is equipped with a wide range of advanced driving safety assist features, including Lane Keeping Assist (LKA), Intelligent Speed Limit Assist (ISLA), Driver Attention Warning (DAW), High Beam Assist (HBA), Blind-Spot Collision-Avoidance Assist (BCA), Rear Cross-Traffic Collision-Avoidance Assist (RCCA), and Highway Driving Assist 2 (HDA 2).

A Genesis official said, “We are very pleased and proud that the GV60 received the highest five-star rating in the Euro NCAP safety evaluation. This result clearly proves Genesis’s unwavering promise to customers to provide the best safety systems.”

This evaluation result once again proves the excellence of Hyundai Motor Group’s dedicated electric vehicle platform E-GMP. Following the five-star ratings earned by Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 and Kia’s EV6 in previous Euro NCAP tests, the GV60’s high safety rating means that all electric vehicles based on the E-GMP platform have received the highest safety ratings.

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