Those Ventos are for exports only.
Well the 5 star is for export quality vento, what about the vento being sold in Indian market?
AFAIK, the Vento sold in India hasn't been crash tested yet.
Saarjis, I would love to have a documented proof showing the same. Please get me something that proves that the vehicles which have been through the tests are not the ones which we get in India. Please don't tell me the LHD or RHD thing, the weight difference in transferring the location of steering system is lower than negligible.
So until we have an official press release which states the same, I don't buy this fact that Indian and exported versions of chassis are different for Vento.
Okay. I read more on this topic and got to know that the Indian Vento doesn't get some parts for body shell stability, which the export model and Indian Jetta get. Otherwise the Indian Polo and Vento both are pretty sturdy built cars and the Indian Vento even is much more heavier (weight) than the export model which is tested, so I don't think quality of the structure would have been greatly compromised.
Source of information?
Coming to body shell, I have my own set of doubts on the fact that Vento is not such a large selling vehicle that economies of scale by any ways will allow VW to force its vendors to produce an entirely different chassis for just a thousand or two cars those sell in Indian market. In fact producing a weaker frame exclusively for a thousand or two cars will result in a higher production cost as compared to that of having the same chassis throughout.
Mathematics Time
Kerb weight of Vento: 1121-1233 kilograms (Source: ACI Magazine)
Weight of tested car (Including passengers - 2 adult dummies, one 18 months old child dummy and one 3 year old child dummy): 1387 kilograms
Report:
View attachment Volkswagen_Vento+2_Airbag_en.pdf
Weight of adult (Male) dummy: 273 pounds or 123.83 kilos hence 546 pounds or 247.66 kilos
Source
Weight of 18 month old child dummy: 11.22 kilos
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Weight of 3 year old child dummy: 16.17 kilos
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So total weight of dummies is 274.39 kilos
That makes a total crash weight (Excluding the weight of fluids additional to the ones in kerb weight, child seats and testing equipment (if any) for lightest variant of Indian Vento: 1395.39 kilos
Since that is heavier (Maybe they have used 15-20 kg lighter dummy for front passenger or maybe the car there is 1.2 TSi with manual, you never know) than the crash weight even when we haven't considered the weight of child seats etc, so we have no evidence to prove that the vehicle we drive here weighs lower than the one which is tested (Until NCAP guys have considered the front passenger as a 36-24-36 mother of the child dummies
). Additionally we can also see that the car being tested also hasn't got any additional hardware like 6 airbags or ESP, TCS etc.
I know VW has something wrong with the tail pipe but straight ahead putting them in the league of Maruti or Hyundai is not acceptable.