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Tannistest 2017

Car of The year
Tannistest, the week-long testing event organized by the six Nordic members of Car of the Year Jury, turned 40 years old in 2017. Originally, this yearly test gathering as many candidates as possible for Car of the Year award, was started by the veteran Danish motoring writer and former Jury member Rogers Sogaard in a different place.

Tannistest, the week-long testing event organized by the six Nordic members of Car of the Year Jury, turned 40 years old in 2017. Originally, this yearly test gathering as many candidates as possible for Car of the Year award, was started by the veteran Danish motoring writer and former Jury member Rogers Sogaard in a different place. Then Tannis, a quiet and idyllic spot in Northern Denmark, was selected as the venue for the test and still is.

22 CotY Jury members attended Tannistest this year to drive and assess an array of new models represented by 69 test cars. The list of candidates for CotY 2018 was not finalized at the time of Tannistest (it will be announced on 20 November 2017), but most of the potential candidates were there. The beautiful Danish area is not only characterized by diverse kind of countryside roads and a motorway. A nearby airstrip in Sindal also offers the chance for the usual elk test, an exercise where most cars met a high standard of proficiency and control, with passing speeds generally on the rise, compared with the ones obtained in the test a few years ago in the same track.

Having in account that autonomous emergency braking is more and more sought-after, each available car equipped with this device (most of the test cars) was also submitted to an AEB test. Oriented primarily for avoiding unaware pedestrians in urban areas, the AEB typically performs best at speeds up to 50 km/h, and most of the cars showed that condition in the tests. But some of the cars were still proficient at higher speed, proving useful for avoiding obstacles in the road or mitigating an unavoidable crash; the Volvo XC60 in particular reacted OK even at speeds over 80 km/h with appropriate safety belt activation and suitable information in the head-up display.

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