The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) added four other vehicles to its coveted 2025 Top Safety Pick and Top Safety Pick+ Lists. If you know that your vehicle is built, taking into account safety, this update is worth mentioning.
Among the outstanding actors: the Audi Q6 e-tron, Buick Enclave and Nissan Armada, which receives the highest award of the institute, the top safety pick+ award. The GMC Acadia also made the grade and received a top security selection price. For Buick and GMC, these honors are a significant return to the form, since no brand had received IIHS prices in several years. In fact, it is the first time since 2013 that the enclave was recognized.
How do IIHS issue these awards? Imagine a battery of tests that the real crashes of simulation-from small overlap effects to updated side crashes. In order to create the list, vehicles ACE (ie a “good” rating in the most important crashworthiness tests must receive the competence in the prevention of pedestrians and offer headlights that do not blindly make the oncoming drivers blindly. There is an additional hurdle for the higher top security selection: An “good” rating in the updated moderate front test, the now when protecting the protection Passenger protection flows into the back seat.
Improvements on the headlights of the enclave introduced after January 2025 and the Acadia carried them via the finish line. Unfortunately, not all models in this test round were so happy. The Cadillac Lyriq, the Audi Q6 Sportback e-tron, KIA K4 and several Nissan models-in one step, Rogue and Sentra fur Short. Frequent problems? Bad headlight performance or incomplete tests.
The IIHS notes that these reviews have not yet been completed. Not every vehicle published for 2025 has been fully evaluated, and updates in the late year can improve the score of a model. You can find the full list of security loan on the IIHS website.
