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    How to read the ADAC crash score
    • Lower is better. ADAC grades from 0.5 to 5.5, like a school grade.
    1. 0.5–1.5 Very good
    2. 1.6–2.5 Good
    3. 2.6–3.5 Satisfactory
    4. 3.6–4.5 Sufficient
    5. 4.6–5.5 Poor
    • 1.7 and 2.2 are both "good". Both seats did well. The lower score means the seat did a little better in ADAC's measurements, so it comes first in our order.
    • What it measures: how well the seat protects in a front crash and a side crash, plus how it's built and how the belt sits. Since 2025 the crashes are run at speeds like Euro NCAP's car tests: 50 km/h from the front, 60 km/h from the side.
    • Check the year. ADAC made its tests stricter in 2025 and says results aren't directly comparable with earlier years. That's why we show the year and grey out older results.

    ÖAMTC (ADAC's partner) child seat test, spring 2025: grade bands and crash speeds · Source · ADAC, how the child seat test works · Source

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