What is NCAP?
In 1978 the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) in the United States was initiated with the primary purpose of providing consumers with a measure of the relative safety potential of vehicles in frontal crashes. NCAP now supplies consumers with important comprehensive information, including frontal- and side- crash test results, to aid them in their vehicle purchase decisions. The ultimate goal of NCAP is to improve occupant safety by providing market incentives for vehicle manufacturers to voluntarily design their vehicles to better protect occupants in a crash and be less susceptible to rollover, rather than by regulatory directives.
