The new 2014 SEAT Leon ST reinforces its position as a nice, spacious, affordable, and now safe family estate, as it gets a five-star safety rating from EuroNCAP. There are a lot of five-star cars out there these days, but the Leon’s scores are what set it apart.

The mid-size estate scored 94% rating for adult occupant protection and 92% for child occupant, which are among the highest in this class of vehicles.

SEAT Leon ST, just like its hatchback sibling, benefits from a long list of standard and available safety features, such as front passenger airbag deactivation, to facilitate installation of a rear-facing child seat, helped achieve the child occupant score, while extensive use of high strength and ultra-high strength steels in key areas of the chassis ensure that the Leon ST remains as stable as possible during a collision. NCAP also applauded the car for its multi-collision brake and lane-keeping assistant technology.

Going on sale in the UK from January 2014, the SEAT Leon ST starts at £16,675 for a 1.2 TSI 105 PS model in S specification.