Honda Accord, Toyota Camry, and others conquer stricter criteria to earn an IIHS Top Safety Pick+ award in 2023.
For 2023, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has overhauled the criteria for its Top Safety Pick+ award, the highest honor the organization can bestow on a vehicle. The IIHS, funded by the insurance industry, conducts crash tests that help measure a vehicle's ability to protect its occupants in a collision. One of those tests, the side-impact test, was recently updated to apply 81 percent more crash energy.
Going forward, a Good rating in the more stringent side crash test will be required to earn Top Safety Pick+. A Good rating will also still be required in the driver’s-side small-overlap front, moderate-overlap front and passenger-side small-overlap tests. The roof-strength and head restraint tests have been removed from the criteria due to industry-wide excellence in those areas.
With all that said, the criteria for the industry's top safety award are now tougher than ever, and the cars in this list, which are all 2023 IIHS Top Safety Pick+ award recipients, are as safe as they come.The Acura Integra is the only small car to earn Top Safety Pick+ honors this year. The compact Acura sedan scored the top rating of Superior in all of the IIHS's crash avoidance and mitigation tests, including the new nighttime vehicle-to-pedestrian test.
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