8 New Vehicles Earn IIHS Top Safety Pick Awards
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety just released its latest batch of safety ratings based on its (admittedly fun-to-watch) crash tests, and there are a few new cars to consider if you’re looking for a supremely safe ride. Eight new vehicles qualified for the agency’s Top Safety Pick awards, including five that achieved the highest Top Safety Pick+ rating.
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The new Top Safety Pick+ award winners are the 2024 Subaru Solterra, 2025 Honda Civic sedan and 2025 Toyota Camry. Genesis’ 2024 Electrified GV70 and 2025 GV70 also earned the top award, but only for those built after April 2024, when Genesis made improvements to rear seat design and rear seat belts that helped push the SUVs into Top Safety Pick+ territory.
Additionally, the 2024 Subaru WRX, 2025 Honda Civic hatchback and 2025 Mini Countryman achieved the agency’s second-highest Top Safety Pick award.
Each crash-test result gets a rating on a four-tier scale: poor, marginal, acceptable or good. To qualify as a Top Safety Pick, a vehicle needs to earn a good rating in the small overlap front, updated side and original moderate overlap front tests; an acceptable or good rating in the pedestrian front crash prevention test; and an acceptable or good rating for its headlamps.
To score a Top Safety Pick+ rating, the vehicle must score a good or acceptable rating in the agency’s updated moderate overlap test. The Solterra is the standout of the recently announced Top Safety Pick+ winners, having scored a good rating in every one of IIHS’ published tests.
All in all, these latest tests increase the number of Top Safety Pick+ winners to 38 and Top Safety Picks to 53. Of the recently tested vehicles, the 2024 Kia Seltos, 2024 Chevrolet Trax and 2024 Buick Envista did not qualify for awards due to their performance in headlights and performances in updated side crash tests. The Trax also only scored a marginal rating in pedestrian front crash prevention testing.
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