2022 Mercedes-Benz C-Class receives five-star ANCAP safety rating

The latest Mercedes-Benz C-Class has received a five-star ANCAP safety rating, courtesy of testing conducted by Euro NCAP.

This applies to all variants that went on sale in Australia and New Zealand from February 2022, consisting of the entry-level C200 and range-topping C300.

The C-Class scored 91 per cent for adult occupant protection (34.60 out of 38 points), 90 per cent for child occupation protection (44.10 out of 49 points) and 80 per cent for vulnerable road user protection (43.29 out of 54 points).

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Full points were awarded for both the driver and front passenger in the frontal-offset test, a first for a vehicle tested under the latest 2020-22 criteria.

However, while the autonomous emergency braking (AEB) system in the C-Class was labelled good for car-to-car scenarios, adequate performance was seen in the pedestrian tests.

ANCAP chief executive officer, Carla Hoorweg, said the C-Class demonstrated strong credentials against the latest testing criteria.

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“The C-Class is the first Mercedes-Benz model to be tested against ANCAP’s 2020-2022 protocols, and it has not disappointed.”

Standard safety equipment in the Mercedes-Benz C-Class includes; autonomous emergency braking with junction assist, lane departure warning, lane-keep assist, emergency lane keeping, blind-spot monitoring, and adaptive cruise control with a speed limiter.

This allowed it to receive a safety assist score of 90 per cent (13.53 out of 16 points), with top marks (2 out of 2 points) for its junction AEB system, which can detect a vehicle entering the road from the side and apply the brakes to prevent a collision.

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10 airbags (dual frontal, side head, front side chest, rear side chest, driver’s knee and centre) are fitted as standard, although a penalty was applied to the score due to a lack of provided information surrounding its centre airbag.

The centre airbag is designed to prevent head clashes between the driver and front passenger in a collision.

The 2022 Mercedes-Benz C-Class went on sale locally in February, starting from $78,990 before on-road costs for the C200. The flagship C300 is available from $90,400, plus on-roads.