The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has recognized nine more vehicles with its safety awards, including six that received the highest award, the Top Safety Pick+, and three that received the lower tier Top Safety Pick award.

The latest 2025 and 2026 model year vehicles join a growing list of cars, SUVs and pickup trucks to earn the IIHS recognition for 2025.

The IIHS updated its safety awards, and, in order to qualify, vehicles now need to have good ratings in the small overlap front and side tests, an acceptable or good rating in the pedestrian front crash prevention evaluation and acceptable or good ratings for headlights across all trim levels.

An acceptable rating in the moderate overlap front test is enough to qualify for the Top Safety Pick, but a good rating is required to get the plus.

The newly awarded Top Safety Pick+ vehicles are the all-new Audi A5, Audi Q6 Sportback e-tron, BMW X3, Ford Explorer, Hyundai Ioniq 9 and Kia Sportage.

The newly awarded Top Safety Pick winners are the Hyundai Santa Cruz, Nissan Rogue and Toyota Corolla Cross.

The complete list of 2025 picks, as of this writing, is below.

2025 Top Safety Pick+

Small cars:

• Honda Civic hatchback
• Mazda3 hatchback
• Mazda3 sedan
• Hyundai Elantra (built after October 2024)
• Kia K4 (built after January 2025)
• Toyota Prius

Midsize cars:

• Honda Accord
• Hyundai Ioniq 6
• Toyota Camry
• Hyundai Sonata (built after November 2024)

Midsize luxury cars:

• Mercedes-Benz C-Class
• Audi A5

Small SUVs:

• Genesis GV60
• Honda HR-V
• Hyundai Ioniq 5
• Hyundai Kona
• Hyundai Tucson
• Kia Sportage (built after May 2025)
• Mazda CX-30
• Mazda CX-50
• Subaru Solterra
• Toyota bZ4X (built after December 2024)

Midsize SUVs:

• Buick Enclave (built after January 2025)
• Ford Explorer (built after June 2025)
• Ford Mustang Mach-E
• Hyundai Ioniq 9
• Hyundai Santa Fe (built after November 2024)
• Kia EV9
• Kia Telluride
• Mazda CX-70
• Mazda CX-70 PHEV
• Mazda CX-90
• Mazda CX-90 PHEV
• Nissan Pathfinder
• Nissan Murano

Midsize luxury SUVs:

• Audi Q6 e-tron
• Audi Q6 Sportback e-tron
• BMW X3 (built after April 2025)
• BMW X5
• Genesis Electrified GV70
• Genesis GV70 (built after April 2024)
• Genesis GV80
• Lincoln Nautilus
• Mecedes-Benz GLC
• Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class (with optional pedestrian front crash prevention)
• Tesla Model Y
• Volvo XC90
• Volvo XC90 Plug-In Hybrid (built before December 2024)

Large SUVs:

• Audi Q7
• Infiniti QX80
• Nissan Armada
• Rivian R1S (built after August 2024)

Large pickups:

• Toyota Tundra crew cab

2025 Top Safety Pick

Small cars:

• Acura Integra hatchback
• Honda Civic sedan

Large luxury cars:

• Genesis G90

Small SUVs:

• Nissan Rogue
• Subaru Forester (excludes Wilderness trim)
• Toyota Corolla Cross

Midsize SUVs:

• Chevrolet Traverse
• GMC Acadia (built after January 2025)
• Honda Pilot
• Subaru Ascent

Midsize luxury SUVs:

• Acura MDX
• Infiniti QX60
• Lexus NX

Small pickups:

• Hyundai Santa Cruz crew cab

Large pickups:

• Rivian R1T

You can learn more about the newly added vehicles and how vehicles qualify on the organization’s website.

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