Nissan Tekton bags 5 stars at Bharat NCAP, matches Duster's crash score
The Nissan Tekton has secured a full 5-star rating in Bharat NCAP crash tests, scoring 30.49 out of 32 for adult occupant protection and 45 out of 49 for child occupant protection. The rating applies across the entire Tekton range, and the numbers match its Renault Duster sibling exactly.
What was announced
Bharat NCAP has awarded the Nissan Tekton a 5-star rating for both adult and child occupant protection, matching the scores posted by its platform sibling, the Renault Duster. The rating covers the full Tekton range, from base to top variant, across powertrains.
The Tekton inherits the Duster's crash paperwork wholesale, which is exactly why Nissan's mid-size SUV pitch now has real weight against Creta and Seltos.
In the frontal offset deformable barrier test, the Tekton scored 14.49 out of 16 points. Driver protection was rated 'Good' for the head, neck, pelvis and thighs, and dropped to 'Adequate' for the chest and tibia. Front passenger protection was rated 'Good' overall, including the chest and lower-leg regions. In the side movable deformable barrier test, the SUV scored the full 16 out of 16 points. The side pole impact test also returned a strong result, contributing to the final adult tally of 30.49 out of 32.
For child occupant protection, the Tekton scored 45 out of 49 points. Both the Tekton and the Duster are built on the Renault-Nissan alliance's CMF-B platform, with six airbags, ESC and three-point seatbelts for all occupants as standard. The Tekton is on sale in India as Nissan's mid-size SUV entrant, priced against the Hyundai Creta, Kia Seltos, Maruti Grand Vitara and Toyota Hyryder.
The Car Jury verdict
The Tekton was always going to score what the Duster scored, because it is the Duster with a different badge. That is not a criticism; it is the whole point of the Renault-Nissan alliance's shared CMF-B platform strategy, and both cars now have the crash paperwork to justify the price of admission in the mid-size SUV segment.
What matters for the Nissan showroom is momentum. As Faisal Khan of FasBeam notes, Nissan finally has a turbo petrol in its India line-up, leaving Honda as the odd one out among Japanese brands here. Pair that engine with a 5-star body shell, and the Tekton has a clean pitch against the Creta and Seltos. Our stance on the Duster is BUY; the Tekton inherits that, subject to Nissan's after-sales network holding up.
