The totally electrical MINI Cooper has added a second security headline in 2025. After securing a five-star Euro NCAP ranking in March 2025, the mannequin has now been named Euro NCAP “Finest in Class for Most secure Metropolis & Supermini of the 12 months 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 ranking applies from a VIN vary overlaying 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% Weak Street Customers
- 79% Security Help
Euro NCAP stories the passenger compartment remained secure within the frontal offset take a look at, with dummy readings indicating good safety of knees and femurs for each entrance occupants. In facet impression testing—together with the extra extreme pole take a look at—Euro NCAP information good safety throughout essential physique areas and full factors in these facet assessments. It additionally flags marginal management of far-side tour (motion towards the struck facet in far-side impacts), whereas noting the automobile has a countermeasure to mitigate occupant-to-occupant accidents.
For rear impacts, Euro NCAP states exams of the entrance seats and head restraints confirmed good whiplash safety, and its geometric evaluation indicated good whiplash safety within the rear seats as effectively.
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 verify 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 stories that, as a result of the MINI Cooper E has restricted rear-seat house and normal baby dummies’ legs are rigid, Euro NCAP makes use of further exams to evaluate baby safety; these exams indicated good or satisfactory safety for essential physique areas in each frontal offset and facet barrier exams.
Euro NCAP additionally notes the entrance passenger airbag will be disabled to permit a rearward-facing baby restraint in that seat, and that the system supplies clear standing data to the motive force. It provides that baby presence detection is just not normal on the Cooper E.
Weak street customers: robust mitigation scores, with particular deductions
In its weak street person part, Euro NCAP stories that pelvis, femur, and knee/tibia safety scored strongly, however that head safety was largely marginal or satisfactory, with poor leads to areas together with the stiff windscreen pillars and the bottom/prime of the display screen.
On lively security for pedestrians and cyclists, Euro NCAP information:
- VRU Affect Safety: 25.8 / 36 factors
- VRU Affect 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 function is just not on by default, whereas the system’s response to motorcyclists achieved most factors within the related exams.
Security help: lane assist and AEB efficiency headline the driver-assist outcomes
Euro NCAP’s Security Help breakdown consists of Lane Assist: 3.0 / 3 factors and AEB Automobile-to-Automobile: 8.1 / 9 factors. The lane system is described as lane departure warning with lively 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 stories that the automobile’s oblique driver standing monitoring detects fatigue however not distraction, and that the clever velocity limiter is just not default ON (with the speed-limit help utilizing digital camera and map assist).
Total, the protection rankings present a 89 % in occupant safety, 87 % in baby security, and 79 % in security help methods.
