Light distance comparison from a magazine

This is from the magazine "Vi Bilägare" in Sweden. They have this fact sheet set on vehicles and this one was interesting.
The image to the far left insinuates that they use test equipment to determine the data on the lights, so I go to their website and see things like this;

(Google translate seems to work well, if you want to check out the site)

Do these charts mean they used proper equipment to test the lights or can they be... "faked" for lack of better term?


Center column is low beam and right column is high beams.

Their graphs show a limited angle of the total beam, but I really appreciate their tests.

About the V90:
"Volvo has an extremely long and wide-beam, which is stumbling near the grade five (like the S90) . But small differences, most likely in the adjustment, provides a 4th. The same applies to the dipped beam must V90 3, 4 at S90."
They do adjust the beams before testing, don't they?

Sometimes, automated translation turns a description into some advanced 3D puzzle - this is about the new Alfa:
"Alfa's Xenon lamps provide good lighting, in addition to the main beam pointing upwards and therefore over 20 meters shorter than the roadway above and therefore worse than the other two."

After Nokian (not Swedish...) admitted to having fooled tire testers for years, having supplied specially formulated test items, you could always question the procurement of test cars even in Northern Europe, especially because every Swede knows that VB tests for rust prevention and headlamp beams. But as Volvo's partially low test score in your link shows, VB's tests don't seem important enough to put a major faking effort into them.