Two Models Win Safety Awards
Three others fail to place after crash testing, headlight and crash-prevention evaluations of 2025 vehicles.
Tesla's 2025 Model Y, along with the 2025 Volvo XC90, won IIHS' top safety award.
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A Tesla and a Volvo earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s highest award.
Midsize SUVs Model Y and XC90 plug-in hybrid SUV won the Top Safety Pick+.
In its latest round of testing, the nonprofit group assessed about half a dozen 2025 models, also issuing new ratings for the Jeep Wrangler and the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon pickups, none of which placed for awards.
The Model Y and XC90 passed front and side crash tests, plus pedestrian front crash prevention criteria, along with having good or acceptable headlights in all trims. Volvo’s safety award applies only to units made after last December.
Meanwhile, the Chevrolet Colorado missed out on an award after testing showed high rear-passenger chest and neck injury levels and a poor rating for one headlight trim. The Canyon didn’t undergo those tests. Both pickups, built on the same platform, had acceptable pedestrian crash-avoidance ratings.
Though the Wrangler scored “good” in a front crash test, it didn’t qualify for an award because other testings were carried over from earlier models.
IIHS also evaluated the vehicles for vehicle-to-vehicle front crash prevention, seat belt reminders and child-restraints ease of use, though those aren’t among award criteria.
Originally posted on F&I and Showroom
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