All-new Mitsubishi Triton gets five star ANCAP safety rating
Five stars for the Triton in the new 2023-2025 ANCAP protocol
The all-new Mitsubishi Triton has proven that it is one of the safest trucks in the market today.
The Australian New Car Assessment Program’s (ANCAP) 2023 to 2025 criteria places more stringent tests in terms of vehicle safety. But even so, the all-new Mitsubishi Triton was able to score a maximum five-star rating for a pickup truck.
Mitsubishi’s latest pickup truck garnered category scores of 86% for its adult occupant protection (AOP), 89% for child occupant protection (COP), 74% for vulnerable road user protection, and 70% for its safety assist systems.
According to ANCAP, the all-new Triton demonstrated high levels of protection for the driver, front-seat adult passenger, and child occupants in the majority of physical crash tests. Maximum scores were achieved by the passenger in the frontal offset test, the driver in the full width frontal and oblique side pole tests, and both child dummies in the frontal and side impact tests.
Opportunities for improvement were noted for the chest and upper legs of the smaller rear passenger in the full width frontal test where a Weak chest score was recorded and a penalty applied for increased risk of abdominal injury in this crash scenario.
Also of note is the approach that Mitsubishi did to the design of the Triton’s front grille and bumper, as it scored well in assessment of risk to a pedestrian’s leg or pelvis in the pedestrian impact tests.
In collision avoidance testing, the Triton’s performance was satisfactory, with all aspects of the Safety Assist assessment combining to a score of 70% - the score threshold for a five-star rating. The Triton is fitted with an autonomous emergency braking (AEB) system capable of detecting and responding to other vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists in a mix of scenarios. That said, the Triton’s functionality does not extend to the more sophisticated AEB scenarios such as avoidance in T-bone intersection crashes and head-on crashes. This limited its overall Safety Assist score.
Meanwhile, the Triton met ANCAP protocol requirements in alerting for fatigue and distraction in the Driver Monitoring Systems, though Mitsubishi’s implementation of this system could be improved by reducing unnecessary warnings to the driver.
This five-star ANCAP safety rating applies to all 2WD and 4WD Double Cab variants on sale in Australia and New Zealand, which are more or less similar to what we get in the Philippine market.
