10 of the safest cars you can lease for your family
If you’re on the hunt for your next car lease, safety is likely high on your priority list – especially if you’re shopping around for a family wagon.
There’s been a bit of a revolution in car safety over the last decade or so.
New technologies – like adaptive cruise control, lane departure warnings and traction control – becoming standard kit, alongside the old guard of features like airbags, ISOFix points and anti-lock brakes.
The European New Car Assessment Programme, or Euro NCAP, gives you a good idea of which cars are rated the safest. Euro NCAP puts vehicles through rigorous tests that represent real-life collision-based scenarios to understand their overall safety performance.
Each car tested is awarded a score from zero to five stars, as well as separate percentage points for four additional categories: adult occupant, child occupant, vulnerable road users and safety assist.
The higher the score, the safer the car for those inside and out.
As well as keeping our loved ones safe, we all want to make sure pedestrians, cyclists, and other road users are protected – as much as they can be. The vulnerable road user protection score gives you an idea of how well your car protect those road users in the event of a collision.
It tests the potential risk of injuries to a pedestrian’s head, pelvis and leg, and awards the score accordingly.
Along with the valuable work our charity partner Brake are doing to make our roads safer, manufacturers have a duty of care to make sure our cars are as safe as possible – and Euro NCAP helps quantify this.
Armed with the knowledge of how safe your car is, you’ll have peace of mind when it comes to picking your next car lease deal.
Though no safety score can ever be completely perfect and entirely prevent road incidents, we’ve picked through the data and pulled out 10 of our safest family car lease deals.
You can keep your family safer without having to burn a massive hole in your wallet – it’s a win/win.