What Car? Car of the Year 2005 - Safety award

Renault

For a fifth consecutive year, Renault leads the way for car safety. Its new Modus supermini and Megane Coupe-Cabriolet both earned a maximum five stars in the past year’s Euro NCAP crash tests, meaning Renault now has seven models with this coveted rating – four more than any other manufacturer.

The Modus’s achievement is impressive because it is harder to protect the occupants of a small car in an accident.

As well as improving the crashworthiness of its cars, Renault continues to run its road-safety website Safety Matters (www.safetymatters.renault.co.uk), developed in association with the Department for Transport and the Local Authority Road Safety Officers’ Association.

This site is aimed at young children and has been running for four years. In that time more than 15,000 UK primary schools have been given free information packs. We hope Renault will work to expand its programme still further. Its efforts in the past year mean it is a worthy winner of the What Car? Safety Award.