Changes are finally coming to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's 5-Star Safety Ratings Program, also known as the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP). NHTSA recently announced the ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has finalized updates to its 5-Star Safety Ratings program. The changes, mandated by the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law, aim to ...

This new 5-Star Safety Ratings System evaluates the safety of ... Starting with the 2011 model year, the NHTSA will rate 24 passenger cars, 20 sport utility vehicles, two vans and nine pickups ...

“Our goal with NHTSA’s 5-Star Safety Ratings program has always been to help consumers choose safer vehicles and to encourage manufacturers to improve vehicle safety,” Adam Raviv, NHTSA ...

Cars may be safer now than they were decades ago, but not all are equally safe. Here are the best and worst brands, based on ...

The 5-Star Safety Ratings program of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or NHTSA is getting an update, with blind spot monitoring and pedestrian detection added to the safety tech ...

With its four siblings getting a 5-star crash rating, and perfect scores for the past two years, we imagine there were few of you worrying about the safety of the new CR-V from Honda. With its ...

Arguably a new segment benchmark, Cadillac’s ATS can add a five-star NHTSA safety rating to its list of accolades. Aimed at dethroning the BMW 3 Series, the ATS is one of the 54 latest vehicles ...

The Model Y is based mostly on the Model 3's platform, and both cars received a five-star rating from the National ... ever recorded for an SUV by the NHTSA. This is directly related to the ...

It identifies Volvo, Subaru, Tesla, Genesis, and Polestar as the (percentage) champions of safety tests. Every single new model released by these brands in the past decade has received a 5-star rating ...

The five-star rating is the U.S. Government's highest-possible safety rating and is determined only after severe testing procedures as part of NHTSA's New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), which ...

NHTSA's new star-rating system should provide better information. Under the old system, most vehicles were racking up four or five stars in every category. The new system intends to be more ...