There were two Top
Safety Pick categories that year, «Gold» and «Silver».
Not exact matches
Failure in this
category prevented the Bolt from earning IIHS» top distinction, the Top
Safety Pick + award.
The Toyota RAV4 earned IIHS Top
Safety Pick Plus designation with the top score of Good in every
category.
Thus far, no vehicle in IIHS» small - SUV
category has garnered a Top
Safety Pick + award, «because they fall short of a good rating for headlights,» the organization said in a release.
It's also possible to order the car with a blind spot warning system as well as a forward collision warning system, and the Taurus owns a rating of «Good» in each major IIHS crash test
category (making it a Top
Safety Pick from 2010 to 2013).
The IIHS has given the 2017 Volkswagen GTI four - door hatchback its Top
Safety Pick designation with its top «Good» ratings in each crashworthiness
category, but a «Poor» rating for the headlights.
It also wants a top «Good» rating in every
category from the IIHS, and a spot in the IIHS's Top
Safety Pick + list.
The previous 2014 car's score of «marginal» in the small overlap test was holding it back from Top
Safety Pick status, but the updated Sonic receives a «good» rating in every
category.
Top
safety pick awards were given to 117 vehicles for 2013 that have good ratings for occupant protection in the original four
categories, regardless of how they performed in the new small overlap rating.
The IIHS came up with an award program called «Top
Safety Pick» in 2005 as a way to annually make news when cars received «top ratings» — not «Good» ratings, according to the timeline on the IIHS website — in the three
categories the IIHS rated at that time (front, side and rear crash tests).
Those changes weren't enough to boost the two Top
Safety Pick winners to the higher award
category.
In fact, that stereo - camera setup offers so much assistance that it received a «Superior» grade in the IIHS» evaluations, in which the Impreza was named a Top
Safety Pick + vehicle with the highest possible grades in all individual testing
categories.
It achieved the best possible 2016 Top
Safety Pick + rating from the IIHS, including a top Superior ranking in the latest Front Collision Prevention
Category when equipped with the Honda Sensing system.
To earn the IIHS «Top
Safety Pick Plus» designation, a vehicle must earn a «Good» or better on all five crashworthiness
categories and also receive an «Advanced» or «Superior» rating for front crash prevention.
As of July, crash test and
safety scores have not been released for the 2018 Sonata, but in the past, the Sonata has earned full scores on the IIHS's tests (making it a Top Safety Pick) and near - perfect results from the NHTSA's evaluations (full stars in 3/4 catego
safety scores have not been released for the 2018 Sonata, but in the past, the Sonata has earned full scores on the IIHS's tests (making it a Top
Safety Pick) and near - perfect results from the NHTSA's evaluations (full stars in 3/4 catego
Safety Pick) and near - perfect results from the NHTSA's evaluations (full stars in 3/4
categories).
Recently the 2011 Kia Sportage was recognized as a «2010 Top
Safety Pick» by the IIHS in the small SUV
category.
The 2016 Mazda6 earned Top
Safety Pick Plus honors from the IIHS with good ratings in all five standard tests and by receiving an advanced rating in the front crash prevention
category.
Half of the 12 top - selling small cars recently crash - tested by a U.S. insurance regulator earned a «Top
Safety Pick +» award, vastly outperforming the candidates in the small SUV
category.
The 2015 Sentra scored «Good» in all five of the «Top
Safety Pick»
categories.
Meanwhile, the Insurance Institute for Highway
Safety (IIHS) has yet to rate the 2016 model as of this writing, but awarded the 2015 RAV4 with its Top
Safety Pick accolade, showing a maximum «Good» rating in every impact
category (child seat anchor ease of use gets a «Marginal» rating).
To earn the 2017 Top
Safety Pick, vehicles must have earned good ratings in IIHS tests evaluated in five
categories: frontal impact moderate overlap, frontal impact small overlap, side impact, roof strength, and head restraints.
For 2016, earning IIHS Top
Safety Pick + certification is no longer a matter of receiving the highest score of «Good» in all but one
category.
IIHS has been recognizing Top
Safety Picks since 2006 and added the Top
Safety Pick +
category for the 2013 model year.