Kajang, Malaysia, 20 January 2023 – The New Car Assessment Program for Southeast Asian Countries (ASEAN NCAP) welcomes the new year with its latest assessment on the new Honda WR-V. The model which was recently launched in Indonesia last year is the ninth model under the Honda brand to be assessed by ASEAN NCAP.

The new Honda WR-V made a splendid performance in the assessment by achieving 5-Star ASEAN NCAP rating with an accumulated score of 77.07 points. The 5-seater Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV), which is one segment below HR-V, is equipped with a standard fitment of 4 airbags across all its variants with majority of the WR-V’s market offer variants with 6 airbags as well.

Under the current ASEAN NCAP 2021-2025 assessment protocol, vehicles are assessed based on four categories comprising Adult Occupant Protection (AOP) with the full score of 40 points, Child Occupant Protection (COP), Safety Assist (SA) and Motorcyclist Safety (MS) with 20 points as the full score for each of the category. Hence, in the assessment, the new WR-V scored 34.26 points for the AOP, 16.78 points for COP, 15.58 points for SA category and 10.45 points for MS.

The WR-V has a standard equipment of Electronic Stability Control (ESC), Anti-lock Braking System (ABS), Seatbelt Reminder System (SBR) for frontal occupants and Pedestrian Protection technology in all its variants. The SUV offers technologies either as standard or optional equipment across all the variants namely Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) City, AEB Inter-Urban, AEB Pedestrian, Forward Collision Warning (FCW), Lane Keep Assist (LKA), Lane Departure Warning (LDW) and Child Presence Detection (CPD). Additionally, other safety assist technologies the WR-V equipped either standard or optional fitment, that were assessed under the MS category, were Blind Spot Visualization (BSV) on the passenger side of the vehicle, Auto High Beam (AHB) and AEB for Motorcycle.

ASEAN NCAP acknowledges that SUV has become a highly popular mode of transport among vehicle consumers in the South East Asian region. Hence, ASEAN NCAP is pleased that apart from its appealing features and compact size, the Honda WR-V offers a number of safety technology features similar to those of its predecessors such as the HR-V and BR-V. A heartfelt congratulations to the Honda team for not only ensuring the safety of its occupants but also making the initiative to include additional safety features to avoid collision with other road users namely the BSV, AHB and AEB for Motorcycle. Furthermore, with the inclusion of CPD technology fitted inside the vehicle, the compact SUV is indeed perfect to be the first car for new families. With such technology, incidences such as children accidentally left inside the car will be avoided. Although these technologies are available either as standard or optional equipment, most importantly they are readily offered in the market amongst the WR-V’s variants for consumers to choose.  

The current ASEAN NCAP 2021-2025 assessment protocol covers four assessment domains with AOP covers 40.00 points of the overall score, and COP, SA and MS make up 20.00 points each of the overall score.

Below is the summary of Honda WR-V result.
>>The new 5-Seater Honda WR-V made an incredible performance in the ASEAN NCAP assessment with an overall score of 77.07 points; comprising 34.26 points for AOP, 16.78 points for COP assessment category, 15.58 points for SA and 10.45 points for MS category. These scores have made the WR-V to be awarded with 5-Star ASEAN NCAP rating.

Full press release for Honda WR-V.