The New Car Assessment Program for Southeast Asian Countries (ASEAN NCAP) will organize its second Open Day in 2013 to mark the end of the second phase which began in May and ended in early this month. As announced earlier, cars for the second phase were tested at two labs – MIROS very own crash lab (MIROS PC3) in Melaka and the crash lab of Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI) for CBU cars to ASEAN.

The Second Open Day event will be held at the MIROS office in Taman Kajang Sentral on the 29th of August 2013 (Thursday) from 10 AM to 4PM. The event is divided into two sessions – result release in the morning which will be followed by press conference and ASEAN manufacturer meeting in the afternoon. This event is open to all automobile safety professionals and enthusiasts, with the information to register is available on ASEAN NCAP website (www.aseancap.org) and its social media sites (Facebook & Twitter).

ASEAN NCAP’s Technical Committee Chairman, Mr. Khairil Anwar was quoted as saying that the second phase is somewhat a strategic approach towards achieving the ultimate aim of having NCAP in the region. “We’ve introduced sponsorship method, approved another official lab for testing and added other segment such as MPV and SUV for many strategic reasons, and this will finally benefit the ASEAN users. We are also testing the model’s variant from new market origin, whereby only cars produced in Malaysia and Thailand involved in the first phase,” said Khairil Anwar.

Meanwhile, MIROS Director-General and ASEAN NCAP’s Steering Committee Chairman, Prof. Dr. Wong Shaw Voon regarded that the completion of the second phase is simply a “good news” to all ASEAN motoring consumers as they will have more cars with NCAP ratings that could help them when acquiring cars. He also added that “sponsored test also means car manufacturers will feature their best product in ASEAN market, and we are proud to tell everyone what ASEAN automotive market has to offer today.”