2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5 Reaffirms Top Safety Status
Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 has renewed its honors as an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Top Safety Pick+ as the automaker reinforced the B-pillar and door sill for enhanced protection in side impact crashes for the 2024 model year. The small electric SUV was a recipient of the agency’s highest safety award when it debuted for 2022, but IIHS implemented stricter requirements for vehicles to qualify in 2023.
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For its crash tests and other structural evaluations like its headlight test and Latch child-safety seat anchor accessibility, IIHS grades vehicles on a scale of poor, marginal, acceptable or good. It also grades active crash-avoidance systems on three levels: basic, advanced or superior. To qualify as a Top Safety Pick+, a vehicle must earn Good ratings in three different frontal crash tests and a side impact test. The side impact test was updated for 2023 with a heavier sled striking the test vehicle at a higher speed. Additionally, the vehicle’s standard headlights must rate at least acceptable, and a crash-prevention system that scores at least an advanced rating in day- and nighttime tests must be available. Previously, a vehicle only needed to get a passing grade in the daytime test.
The 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5 earned top marks in all four of the required crash tests. The SE and SEL trim levels’ LED reflector headlights scored an acceptable rating, while the Limited’s LED projector lights rated good. Additionally, IIHS rated the standard crash-prevention system superior in the daytime pedestrian-avoidance test and advanced at night.
We already named the Ioniq 5 our Top Pick for a Family EV. The IIHS endorsement is just one more reason to recommend this electric Hyundai.
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