Not long ago, Ford Ranger (Configuration |Inquiry) In the crash test of the latest batch of vehicle models published by C-NCAP (China Automotive Technology Research Center New Vehicle Evaluation Procedure), it has won five-star safety evaluation. This also makes Ranger the first pickup truck in the automotive industry to win the C-NCAP five-star safety certification.
It is worth mentioning that Ford Ranger won this honor with a comprehensive score rate of 90.0%. Specifically, the comprehensive score rate of Ford Ranger's active safety is 89.72%, the comprehensive score rate of pedestrian safety is 73.05%, and the comprehensive score rate of member protection is 94.29%, which can be said to be quite comprehensive. It is worth mentioning that the Ford Ranger has also become the world's first pickup truck with China's C-NCAP, Europe's E-NCAP and Australia's A-NCAP five-star safety certification.
Test standards for ultra-high standards
What makes Ford Ranger's safety achievements stand out from other pickups? First of all, the new car is built based on the latest and most advanced third-generation medium-sized pickup platform of Ford in the world, giving it a natural technological advantage. In addition, Ford Ranger conducted intensive and rigorous tests for four consecutive months at the Ford YYPG, which is known as the "car scrap yard", to simulate the wear and tear of vehicles that have been used for 10 years in a real environment and create a hard core pickup far higher than the industry standard. In addition to power and durability tests, vehicles coming to YYPG also need to carry out all-round tests on safety, fuel consumption, emissions and even noise. It is far more than 30% of the industry's durability test standard, and the verification mileage of a single vehicle is up to 1.5 million kilometers.
Energy absorption of hydraulic pipe beam in front cabin
In addition to the harsh test environment, the engineers' diligent pursuit of details is the biggest reason for Ford Ranger's success. For example, the principle of the non load bearing body is to suspend the body onto the frame, but although the frame can resist deformation and enable the vehicle to cope with poor off-road conditions, due to its strong rigidity, it will often cause more serious damage to the vehicle after being hit violently because the body does not absorb energy and vibrates heavily. The engineers designed a unique hydraulic pipe beam in the front compartment to help guide the force to the body and frame at the same time during the collision, so that the body and frame are stressed at the same time and the collision pressure is dispersed.
Not only that, engineers also designed ingenious collapse grooves for the hydraulic tube beam of the front cabin, which can better guide the collapse of the hydraulic tube beam and better absorb the energy generated by the collision while ensuring rigidity.
Two ingenious limit arms
Ford Ranger also ingeniously designed two limit arms made of high-strength steel at the front and rear of the front wheels on both sides.
Among them, the front stop arm can act as a lever in case of offset collision, which can make the vehicle slip laterally and greatly avoid the complete collision force of the vehicle; The rear limit arm is to avoid the front wheel from invading the seating space when the vehicle encounters a front collision as far as possible, so as to ensure the leg safety of the front passenger.
Ford Ranger also uses 1580MPa high-strength boron steel in key parts such as the B-pillar and door frame area, whose strength is more than 4 times that of ordinary steel, reaching the strength level of aircraft landing gear, and can withstand more than 15 tons of pressure per square centimeter, to maximize the safety of life in the cabin.
Special airbag design
The Ford Ranger has up to 8 airbags, including the front passenger and passenger airbags, left and right knee airbags, left and right seat side thorax airbags, and left and right side air curtains. It has 55L super large front airbags, which are in contact with the side air curtains to prevent passengers' heads from slipping out. It is worth mentioning that the front airbag of Ford Ranger uses a special concave design to avoid excessive impact on the passenger's chest in case of collision. The side air curtain will not only pop up during impact, but the addition of RCM roll over sensor will ensure that the airbag can also pop up quickly when the side not being impacted has a large displacement, so as to ensure the safety of passengers to the greatest extent.
Comprehensive active security configuration
In addition to passive safety, Ford Ranger also has a comprehensive score rate of 89.72% in the evaluation of active safety performance, which is unique among similar models. Ford Ranger deeply customized high specification redundant hardware embedded in the Chinese market, including more than 30 sensors, such as 12 ultrasonic radars, 4 high-definition surround cameras, 4 high-definition side view cameras, etc., to achieve a full range of perception of the surrounding environment of the vehicle. Its cutting-edge functions, such as ACC adaptive cruise, TJA traffic congestion assistance system and DCLC intelligent lane change assistance, provide real-time road condition monitoring and potential risk early warning for drivers to ensure driving safety. What's more, Ford Ranger took the lead in introducing L2.9 level intelligent driving assistance systems in the pickup truck industry, including NGA intelligent navigation driving assistance and APA automatic parking technology. These functions, under the supervision of the driver, can achieve seamless intelligent navigation assisted driving from point A to point B in the road sections covered by high-precision maps. Although these functions are common today. But you should know that it is a pickup truck.
Pedestrian protection is also important
For a pickup truck, generally speaking, pedestrian protection is a serious failure. Because the height of the pickup truck body is high, the injury to pedestrians in the event of a collision is more uncontrollable, which is difficult to avoid, and most manufacturers will choose to give up this consideration. However, the engineers of Ford Ranger chose to use special materials or shapes in the middle net, engine compartment lid, windshield lower edge and other parts to avoid injuries to pedestrians as much as possible.
summary : For a pickup truck, because of its tool attributes, consumers tend not to put forward too many requirements on its security. However, Ford told us with practical actions that safety does not depend on models. The original pickup truck also needs to pass rigorous tests, and the original pickup truck can also achieve excellent safety performance by polishing details over and over again. We also hope that more and more manufacturers will devote more attention to security and provide consumers with better products in today's volume price volume configuration!
