You could buy a fleet of Jimnys! G wagon is close to £150,000.

Others here might not worry about the NCAP results. So be it. I just happen to think it's distinctly regrettable that, on a new car, fresh from the designers drawing board, there's a big brown section on the driver's chest, indicating "weak" protection when you look at the NCAP results. For me there are too many inclusions of the words "WEAK" and MARGINAL in the report.

Included in the "comments" under the Youtube video of the NCAP test is one entry from a bright individual who says - "who the hell is gonna crash it like that anyways be a good driver and be wary of other bad drivers, and nothing will happen to you ". [sic] Clearly written by someone who hasn't seen, close up, instances when drivers DO "crash it like that". It rather looks to me as though we're telling ourselvesthat we're far too good to be making errors of judgement or driving badly ourselves and never make a mistake that might allow such a thing to happen ... but surely we all know that even if we WERE so perfect it could, just conceivably, be someone else who drives round a bend at speed, comes across the white line and hits us head on or corner to corner - in which case it makes good sense (to me at least) for the manufacturer of a brand new design of car to make it capable of achieving more than three stars.

The lack of a 4 or 4 star NCAP rating may be taken as a good excuse for insurers to jack up their premiums for that car, especially for drivers under 25. A 3 star car nowadays is easily as good as the 4 star (if not better) my 12yo Mazda has. But I bet that the less honest insurers only look at the raw number.

I too try and makes sure whatever car I buy has the minimum electronic gizmos needed so that they less likely to fail (expensively, especially if doing so results in an MOT fail).

To me, the most important safety aspect in a car is its driver. IMHO too many people are getting complacent and driving more carelessly and even recklessly these days, because they think the three-lettered safety acronymn devices will save them whatever they stupidly do.