MINI Cooper Electric wins Euro NCAP “Best in Class” 2025

The fully electric MINI Cooper has added a second security headline in 2025. After securing a five-star Euro NCAP score in March 2025, the mannequin has now been named Euro NCAP “Greatest in Class for Most secure Metropolis & Supermini of the Yr 2025.”

What Euro NCAP examined and what the scores imply

Euro NCAP’s March 2025 crash-test publication lists the examined mannequin because the MINI Cooper E, a 3-door hatchback within the Metropolis and Supermini class, with a kerb weight of 1621 kg. Euro NCAP notes the score applies from a VIN vary protecting all Cooper E.

The printed class scores for the MINI Cooper Electrical line in that take a look at cycle are:

• 89% Grownup Occupant
• 87% Little one Occupant
• 77% Susceptible Street Customers
• 79% Security Help

Euro NCAP experiences the passenger compartment remained steady within the frontal offset take a look at, with dummy readings indicating good safety of knees and femurs for each entrance occupants. In aspect impression testing—together with the extra extreme pole take a look at—Euro NCAP data good safety throughout important physique areas and full factors in these aspect assessments. It additionally flags marginal management of far-side tour (motion towards the struck aspect in far-side impacts), whereas noting the automotive has a countermeasure to mitigate occupant-to-occupant accidents.

For rear impacts, Euro NCAP states checks of the entrance seats and head restraints confirmed good whiplash safety, and its geometric evaluation indicated good whiplash safety within the rear seats as nicely.

Euro NCAP additionally lists post-crash and rescue-related provisions together with an ISO-compliant rescue sheet, superior eCall, multi-collision braking, and a submergence examine marked compliant; it says MINI demonstrated that doorways and home windows could be openable to assist occupant escape in a submergence state of affairs.

Little one occupant: excessive crash-test efficiency, with notes on rear-seat packaging

Euro NCAP’s child-occupant testing references restraints utilized in its assessments: a Britax Römer KidFix i-Dimension for the 6-year-old dummy and an Osann Up for the 10-year-old dummy. It experiences that, as a result of the MINI Cooper E has restricted rear-seat area and commonplace baby dummies’ legs are rigid, Euro NCAP makes use of extra checks to evaluate baby safety; these checks indicated good or satisfactory safety for important physique areas in each frontal offset and aspect barrier checks.

Euro NCAP additionally notes the entrance passenger airbag could be disabled to permit a rearward-facing baby restraint in that seat, and that the system gives clear standing data to the motive force. It provides that baby presence detection just isn’t commonplace on the Cooper E.

Susceptible highway customers: robust mitigation scores, with particular deductions

In its susceptible highway consumer part, Euro NCAP experiences that pelvis, femur, and knee/tibia safety scored strongly, however that head safety was largely marginal or satisfactory, with poor ends in areas together with the stiff windscreen pillars and the bottom/high of the display.

On energetic security for pedestrians and cyclists, Euro NCAP data:

• VRU Impression Safety: 25.8 / 36 factors
• VRU Impression Mitigation: 23.2 / 27 factors
• AEB Pedestrian: 6.9 / 9 factors
• AEB Bicycle owner: 7.8 / 8 factors

It additionally notes that bicycle owner “dooring” safety scored no factors as a result of the characteristic just isn’t on by default, whereas the system’s response to motorcyclists achieved most factors within the related checks.

Security help: lane assist and AEB efficiency headline the driver-assist outcomes

Euro NCAP’s Security Help breakdown consists of Lane Help: 3.0 / 3 factors and AEB Automobile-to-Automobile: 8.1 / 9 factors. The lane system is described as lane departure warning with energetic return (LKA and ELK) operational from 60 km/h, whereas the ahead collision warning with brake intervention is listed as operational from 5 km/h utilizing a digital camera.

Euro NCAP additionally experiences that the automotive’s oblique driver standing monitoring detects fatigue however not distraction, and that the clever velocity limiter just isn’t default ON (with the speed-limit help utilizing digital camera and map assist).

General, the security scores present a 89 p.c in occupant safety, 87 p.c in baby security, and 79 p.c in security help techniques.