2022 Haval H6 Crash test Safe Chinese SUV

Crash testing authority ANCAP has awarded the 2022 Haval H6 a five-star safety rating. The mid-sized SUV achieved solid scores across all categories, doing especially well for protection of adult occupants (90 per cent with out of 38 points), children (88 per cent, out of 49), pedestrians and cyclists (vulnerable road users, 73 per cent and out of 54). The H6’s onboard safety systems also helped it perform well (81 per cent with of 16) in actively avoiding or reducing the effects of a range of potential collisions – including in a run-off-road crash and in car-to-car and car-to-cyclist autonomous emergency braking (AEB) scenarios. However, when it came to the AEB pedestrian backover test, which simulates a pedestrian walking or standing behind a reversing vehicle, the H6 was not so hot – earning zero out of a possible two points and was dubbed poor. The result comes from the latest round of testing against ANCAP’s new 2020-2022 rating criteria. Full points were scored for driver p