The Holden Trax has received a maximum five-star safety rating from the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP).
The Gamma-based subcompact crossover, known as the Chevrolet Trax elsewhere in the world except for Russia, where it wears the Tracker name, is launching this month in Australia, and sports an extensive list of standard safety features across the model range, including six airbags, a rear view camera, rear parking sensors, Electronic Stability Control (ESC) with Anti-lock Braking System (ABS), brake assist, electronic brake distribution and traction control. The Trax also provides the ISOFIX child seat anchorage system for attaching child restraints to help to ensure proper child seat fitment. The addition of ISOFIX on the Trax represents that all new Holden vehicles now feature ISOFIX as standard equipment.
Enabling the highly-successful global vehicle to earn the top safety scores is a strong structure made of high-strength and ultra-high-strength steels, a reinforced safety cage, and impact-absorbing crush zones. The structure is designed to absorb energy during a crash, thereby helping preserve the structural integrity of the occupant compartment.
And since the Trax is a global vehicle, it meets global standards for protecting pedestrians against head injuries in the event of a crash by using energy-absorbing materials in the hood. The Trax also incorporates other energy-absorbing techniques to protect pedestrians by strategically using air space between the hood and hard objects underneath, such as the battery and engine, which could injure pedestrians.
The Trax’s five-star ANCAP rating joins similar top five-star scores in Europe and in Korea.
Comments
It’s pretty sad to know that if it had a bowtie emblem on the hood people in Australia wouldn’t buy it even if it’s the same car!
Just sad!
Probably because the brand they know and trust is selling it. Not many people would even know about it without Holden. Its not like it has a historic name or reputation. If a Camaro was sold here as a Chevy, people would buy it. If the Malibu, Trax etc was sold as Chevy, people would only consider it if Chevy stood out with better pricing, deals etc. in this case, badge engineering Is marketing.
Your buying a brand not a car, you disregard anything that doesn’t have a holden emblem on it!
You don’t believe your cars are better you just can’t stomach ever owning a chevy when they are the same god dam car! Do you a change in bumper covers really makes a difference in the car?
You expect the US to care about holden when you have no interest in are brands!
Maybe GM will just stop letting Australia build cars all together then what the hell are you going to do
I believe the Commodore is way better than other GM offerings of the same class. I would never buy a Trax whether it had a Chevy or a Holden badge on it. When it comes to the majority of consumers (the ones who have no interest in cars like GM Authority readers), they look for a car that meets their needs, the brand of the car just influences the appeal of the car. The Holden brand has a positive influence on consumers because they identify it as being the Australian brand. The Chevrolet brand is American and despite recent changes, consumers still see american cars (even if its made in Korea and just has an american logo) as being cheap, gas guzzling, boxes on wheels. What would the consumers buy? The one associated with their culture and nationality or a cheap, gas guzzling box on wheels? Its called badge credibility and I’m sorry to say Chevy has little to none here. Like I said, the Camaro has a better image (Thanks to Transformers etc.) here but everything else they’ll sell won’t have that image.
I have interest in all of GM but my main interest is obviously Holden. You have no interest in what Holden does and can do for GM, you only care about the 4 American brands.