After receiving a Top Safety Pick Plus crashworthiness award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in September, the 2019 Subaru Ascent three-row SUV scored a second major accolade the very next month. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration gave the all-new Ascent five stars out of five in its crash-test program. This helped the Ascent ascend not only to the safety-ratings summit, but also to No. 2 on our list of the five most popular Cars.com news stories of the past week.
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