Mii achieves five stars
SEAT’s Mii achieves five stars at Euro NCAP
• 89% score for Adult Occupant safety
• 80% for Child Occupant safety
• Mii available with City Safety Assist accident prevention system
SEAT’s all-new city car, the Mii, has achieved a benchmark five-star award in the latest round of Euro NCAP crash test rating results, published today.
Within the four different categories assessed by the Euro NCAP crash test, the Mii achieved a total score of 89% for Adult Occupant safety, with maximum points for passenger protection in frontal crash. And, Euro NCAP makes a particular mention of the level of protection offered to front seat occupants’ knees and femur.
For Child Occupant safety, Mii scored 80%. Maximum points were scored for the protection of the three-year old dummy in the dynamic tests.
Mii’s Pedestrian safety score was 46% while in the Safety Assist category, the Mii achieved 86% in recognition of its high level of ESC fitted as standard across the range in Europe.
With this high Euro NCAP score, the all-new SEAT Mii can be considered among the most secure vehicles in the city car segment.
And, to reinforce its credentials as a safe city car, the Mii is available with City Safety Assist, an innovation which using laser-technology to monitor the road ahead in an urban environment and to warn the driver if the car in front is slowing. Furthermore, if the Mii’s driver fails to respond, the Mii will apply the brakes to prevent a collision, even bringing the car to a stop if necessary.
The SEAT Mii is available in a compact, agile 3-door bodystyle, ideal for busy city driving. Powered by a 1-0-litre engine producing either 60 or 75hp, the Mii combines refreshing, zestful styling with useful technology to offer something new to urban drivers who need a small car to meet the needs of their busy lives.
Customer deliveries of the 3-door Mii begin in Spain before the end of the year, with sales in the rest of Europe beginning in Spring 2012.
SEAT is the only company in its sector with the full-range capacity to design, develop, manufacture and market cars in Spain. A member of the Volkswagen Group, the multinational has its headquarters in Martorell (Barcelona), exporting approximately 75% of its production to 72 countries. SEAT is the market leader in Spain, and in 2010 reached a turnover amounting to 4.7 billion euros, with total sales of 339,500 vehicles.
SEAT Group employs 13,500 professionals at its three production centres in Barcelona - Zona Franca, El Prat de Llobregat and Martorell, where it manufactures the highly successful Ibiza and Leon, amongst other models. The Volkswagen Group production facility at Palmela in Portugal supplies the SEAT Alhambra and the factory in Bratislava (Slovakia) manufactures the SEAT Mii.
The Spanish multinational also has a Technical Center, a ‘knowledge hub’ bringing together more than 900 engineers whose goal is to be the driving force behind innovation for the number one industrial investor in R&D+i in Spain. In line with its declared commitment to environmental protection, SEAT undertakes and bases its core activity on sustainability, namely reduction of CO2 emissions, energy efficiency, as well as recycling and re-using of resources.
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