The 2020 Mahindra Thar has secured a four-star rating in the latest round of Global NCAP’s #SaferCarsForIndia crash tests. Subject to Global NCAP’s offset frontal crash test at a speed of 64kph, the Mahindra Thar managed to secure four stars for adult occupant protection. The Mahindra Thar’s overall score for adult occupant protection was 12.52 points out of a maximum of 17.  The Mahindra Thar fared equally well on the child occupant protection front.

Global NCAP has handed the Thar four stars and 41.11 points out of a maximum of 49 for child occupant protection – the highest score of all cars tested so far. To put it into perspective, even the Mahindra XUV300 – which was the first Mahindra to secure a full five stars in the Global NCAP crash tests – had only scored 37.44 points for child occupant protection. While Global NCAP has usually picked the base model of the vehicle in question for crash tests in the past, it appears to have used the higher-spec Mahindra Thar LX with a hardtop this time.