{"id":442,"date":"2021-04-28T14:13:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T12:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autocity.dev.webeng.co\/mahindra-site\/mahindra-xuv300-receives-highest-ever-5-star-safety-rating-for-africa-from-global-ncap\/"},"modified":"2021-04-28T14:13:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T12:13:08","slug":"mahindra-xuv300-receives-highest-ever-5-star-safety-rating-for-africa-from-global-ncap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autocity.dev.webeng.co\/mahindra-site\/mahindra-xuv300-receives-highest-ever-5-star-safety-rating-for-africa-from-global-ncap\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahindra XUV300 receives highest ever 5-star safety rating for Africa from Global NCAP"},"content":{"rendered":" <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">28 Jan 2021<\/h3>    <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Sets new benchmark in Safety with first 5-star safety rating for all vehicles tested in Africa by Global NCAP, with highest ever score<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>XUV300 becomes the safest car ever tested by GNCAP for Africa<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>    <p><strong>January 28 2021; Pretoria:&nbsp;<\/strong>Mahindra South Africa, part of the USD 19.4 billion Mahindra Group, today announced that its compact SUV, the XUV300, has been awarded the highest 5-Star Safety Rating by Global NCAP. With this global recognition, the&nbsp;<strong>XUV300 becomes the first ever vehicle in Africa to score the highest safety rating among cars tested so far by Global NCAP.<\/strong><\/p>    <p>The XUV300 has also become one of the&nbsp;<strong>vehicles in Africa to score a 4-Star child safety rating.<\/strong>&nbsp;It is noteworthy that side-impact performance is a pre-requisite for a 5-Star safety rating, and the&nbsp;<strong>XUV300 side-impact performance has been one of the best among all 5-star-rated cars.<\/strong><\/p>    <p>The #SaferCarsForAfrica safety rating shows that XUV300 received 5-star rating for its adult protection in the GNCAP crash tests with the highest ever score. The XUV300 sets a new safety benchmark for Africa.<\/p>    <p>\u201cMahindra has made a public commitment to provide the safest vehicles possible and the GNCAP rating is a welcome accolade and a first for Africa from the global authority on vehicle safety tests. It is also a sign of things to come from all future models of Mahinda,\u201d says Arvind Mathew, Chief of International Operations at Mahindra &amp; Mahindra.<\/p>    <p>According to Rajesh Gupta, CEO of Mahindra South Africa, \u201cA 5-star rating from the GNCAP is the best-possible confirmation that safety is integrated into the very design and structure of the Mahindra XUV300. If one combines the vehicle\u2019s passive safety with its performance, including its exemplary road holding and dynamic handling, it is the perfect SUV for the South African family. It boasts of an unmatched value proposition in terms of style, safety, performance and features.\u201d<\/p>    <p>The Mahindra XUV300, with its many segment-leading safety features including 7 airbags, disc brakes on all 4 wheels, front parking sensors and heated outside rear-view mirrors (ORVMs) for improved visibility, offers fortress-like safety that is unmatched.<\/p>    <p>Ends<\/p>    <p>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>    <p><strong>FORTRESS-LIKE SAFETY IN XUV300<\/strong><\/p>    <p>The XUV300 offers&nbsp;some class leading and best-in-segment&nbsp;safety features*:<\/p>    <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Class leading&nbsp;7 airbags, including knee airbag, dual-front, side and curtain airbags.<\/li><li>First-in-class&nbsp;front parking sensors<\/li><li>ISOFIX child seat mounts<\/li><li>Disc brakes on all 4 wheels&nbsp;<\/li><li>Heated ORVMs<\/li><li>Electronic stability program with Dynamic Steering Torque, Hydraulic Brake Assist, Roll-over Mitigation and Traction Control, together with Hill Start Assist.<\/li><li>ABS and Electronic Brakeforce Distribution (EBD) standard across all variants<\/li><li>Front and rear fog lamps<\/li><li>Tyre-tronics (Tyre pressure and temperature monitoring system)<\/li><li>Seat belt reminder for all seats<\/li><\/ul>    <p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/mahindra.co.za\/\">https:\/\/mahindra.co.za\/<\/a><\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 Jan 2021 Sets new benchmark in Safety with first 5-star safety rating for all vehicles tested in Africa by Global NCAP, with highest ever score XUV300 becomes the safest car ever tested by GNCAP for Africa January 28 2021; Pretoria:&nbsp;Mahindra South Africa, part of the USD 19.4 billion Mahindra Group, today announced that its &#8230; <a title=\"Mahindra XUV300 receives highest ever 5-star safety rating for Africa from Global NCAP\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/autocity.dev.webeng.co\/mahindra-site\/mahindra-xuv300-receives-highest-ever-5-star-safety-rating-for-africa-from-global-ncap\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mahindra XUV300 receives highest ever 5-star safety rating for Africa from Global NCAP\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mahindra-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autocity.dev.webeng.co\/mahindra-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autocity.dev.webeng.co\/mahindra-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autocity.dev.webeng.co\/mahindra-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autocity.dev.webeng.co\/mahindra-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autocity.dev.webeng.co\/mahindra-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/autocity.dev.webeng.co\/mahindra-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autocity.dev.webeng.co\/mahindra-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autocity.dev.webeng.co\/mahindra-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autocity.dev.webeng.co\/mahindra-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autocity.dev.webeng.co\/mahindra-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}