Even in a laboratory, car crashes are horrifically violent. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety crash-tests many vehicles every year, and in its full-speed video footage, the subject vehicle ...

There are some important differences in crash-test performance that set apart cars rewarded with the IIHS' Top Safety Pick ...

Not surprising anyone, the Ram truck brand has to improve its crew-cabbed 1500 tremendously in order to receive the maximum ...

Electric vehicles can get heavy. For example, the Rivian R1T pickup truck weighs over 7,100 pounds and the Hummer EV weighs over 9,000 pounds. Due to such hefty curb weights, the Insurance Institute ...

When a brand promises “the best or nothing,” even modest safety shortcomings tend to attract attention. That's the case with ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety issued a marginal rating for the 2022 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited in the driver-side small overlap crash test after it flipped onto its passenger side during the ...

What do you do when the class aces the test? You make the test harder. That’s the plan at the insurer-funded Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which says that automakers have made automatic ...

Beyond the marginal rating in the moderate overlap test, the E-Class could also use better headlights and active braking ...

Both provide valuable information but their testing and scoring methods are different and they are funded differently, one being a government agency, and the other not. NHTSA was officially ...

You can make a Jeep Wrangler climb a mountain or ford a stream, but please don’t ask it to complete the IIHS driver-side small overlap crash test without flipping. It’s tried more than once already ...

The 2022 Toyota Tacoma midsize pickup truck returned a marginal rating in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety passenger-side small overlap front crash tests. The IIHS says that it received the ...

WASHINGTON — The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is weighing whether to increase the test speed used to evaluate automatic emergency braking systems as it looks for ways to encourage better ...