Nissan has been forced to withdraw a new car from sale after it earned a shocking zero-star safety rating. The Nissan Tsuru is built for the Mexican market, and is a popular taxi in the Central American country. But in test conditions designed to show the variations in vehicle safety between different countries, the Tsuru proved to be well below the standards of its US equivalent.
The test was conducted by the Global New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), and the Tsuru was assessed in a 50 per cent overlap collision with the US market Nissan Versa, which is similar to the UK's Nissan Pulsar. Both cars were travelling at 40mph, but the difference in damage between the two was stark.
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