Made-in-India Renault Kiger scores 4 stars in Global NCAP test

Four stars for the Kiger that is built in India

Global NCAP has crash tested a Renault Kiger built at Renault Nissan's Oragadam plant near Chennai for the South African market, and the car has scored 4 stars for adult occupant protection and 3 stars for child occupant protection. The adult score is 25.20 points out of 34, and the child score is 30.21 points out of 49, under the agency's updated 2022 test protocol, Autocar India reported on November 11.

The tested car came with six airbags and electronic stability control as standard, along with ISOFIX child seat anchors and a three point seatbelt for every seat. Global NCAP noted that the footwell area and the body shell were rated unstable and could not take extra loading, and that a door opened during the side impact test.

How this compares to the old Kiger

Global NCAP had tested a pre facelift, two airbag Kiger back in February 2022. That car scored 4 stars for adult protection, 12.34 points out of a smaller 17 point scale, and 2 stars for child protection, 21.05 out of 49. So the new test shows the child score moving up by one star, from 2 to 3, after Renault added four more airbags and stability control as standard. The adult rating has stayed at 4 stars, though the points scale has doubled under the newer protocol, so the two scores are not directly comparable.

Global NCAP's CEO Richard Woods said it is satisfying to see the safety improvements Renault has introduced with the updated Kiger in South Africa, and that the agency hopes this approach becomes a trend across the industry, Rushlane reported.

For context, the Nissan Magnite, which shares its platform with the Kiger, scored a full 5 stars for adult protection in its own 2025 Global NCAP test.

What this means for an Indian buyer

The car that was crash tested is not a separate model built only for export. Renault's India facelift of the Kiger, launched here in August 2025 at prices from Rs 6.29 lakh to Rs 11.29 lakh ex-showroom, already carries six airbags, ESP, traction control, hill start assist, TPMS and ISOFIX mounts as standard across every trim, matching the specification of the car Global NCAP tested, per CarWale's report on the launch.

This is not a recall. No Kiger owner needs to visit a dealer or have any part replaced. The result simply tells an Indian buyer that the Kiger they can order today carries the safety equipment behind this score, and that the car's weak points, by Global NCAP's own assessment, are structural: an unstable footwell and body shell that the agency says cannot take extra loading, and a door that opened in the side crash. Buyers cross shopping the Kiger against the Magnite, which uses the same underpinnings, should weigh that the Magnite's own test produced a full 5 stars for adults.

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