GAC AION UT Gets Five-Star ANCAP Safety Rating

The GAC AION UT electric hatchback has been awarded a five-star ANCAP safety rating, covering both Premium and Luxury variants.

The rating applies to all variants built from January 2026 for Australia and New Zealand.
Australian vehicles are on sale from April 2026, with New Zealand vehicles from May 2026.

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The AION UT is offered from $31,990 driveaway nationally, with the safety result joining the local AION UT pricing and specification details already outlined for Australia.

ANCAP published the rating in October 2026, with the result expiring in December 2034.

Headline ANCAP results

The AION UT's strongest result was Crash Protection at 90 per cent, followed by Post Crash at 88 per cent.
It also recorded 74 per cent for Crash Avoidance and 68 per cent for Safe Driving.

Category	Score
Safe Driving	68 per cent
Crash Avoidance	74 per cent
Crash Protection	90 per cent
Post Crash	88 per cent

Standard safety equipment listed by ANCAP includes frontal, side chest, side head and centre airbags, along with autonomous emergency braking, blind-spot monitoring, child presence detection, cyclist dooring detection, driver monitoring, emergency lane keeping, lane centring, multi-collision braking and speed sign recognition.

ANCAP notes the AION UT has eCall hardware fitted, but eCall notifications are not yet active.
GAC has committed to making eCall functionality operable in all AION UT vehicles by October 2027.