Fabia only 4 star rating in EuroNCAP!!!

[VAG newbie]

I am in the process of convincing my parents in getting a Fabia as they are looking at trading up their old Mitsubishi Colt. As the Fabia has a price premium over the Japanese small cars, I was gonna use the excuse that Euro cars are safer, and it's worth the extra money for safer cars.

But surprisingly that's not true! Both EuroNCAP and ANCAP has given Fabia a 4 star rating. (I don't know how did ANCAP has the result for Fabia, but it's there on their website!) Consider the cheaper Japanese competitors such as Honda Jazz, Mazda 2 and Suzuki Swift all achieved a 5 star rating with ANCAP this year. It makes me wonder how did Fabia only achieve a 4 star rating? Does any one know? Was it like the Octavia which only had 2 airbags when tested? Would current Fabia achieve a 5 star if tested again when it arrives here?

If Fabia really has only 4 star rating, I think it will be very hard to gain much significant sales. Consider these Japanese competitors are much cheaper, better equipt, more reliable (even though Skoda is good, Honda and Mazda often beat Skoda in reliability survey), will run on 91RON, higher resale, and even safer. It will be interesting. Hmm...