When consumers are deciding between purchasing a Honda car or some other vehicle, one of the things that very often splits the difference is the top marks that Honda cars and SUVs tend to earn in regard to safety. Every year both the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration administer a number of really tough crash and safety tests in an attempt to determine which models really are the safest in the industry.
Of all the Honda vehicles to perform well on these tests, four in particular stand out as the safest automobiles currently for sale here at Gillman Honda San Antonio.
The 2016 Honda Accord with Honda Sensing™ (both the four-door and two-door body styles), 2016 Honda CR-V and 2016 Pilot with Honda Sensing™ all received a top five-star safety rating from the NHTSA and a Top Safety Pick+ designation from the IIHS. This means that these vehicles were able to perform well in all of these organizations’ respective crash tests and check all the requisite boxes in terms of available advanced safety features.
The fourth model that belongs in this group is the 2016 Honda Civic, which already has earned a Top Safety Pick+ designation from the IIHS and could very well earn the five-star rating from the NHTSA[1] once it finally is tested by the federal government. Previous versions of the Civic have performed considerably well, and there’s little reason to believe that an updated version of the vehicle, with new and more widespread safety tech, wouldn’t also hit the mark.
Of course, the 2016 Honda Odyssey and 2016 Honda Fit also both were given 5-star ratings from the NHTSA, while the Odyssey was named a Top Safety Pick, but that shouldn’t come as too big a surprise considering the overall quality of Honda safety in the most current vehicles. No matter the vehicle, chances are good its safety features and crash test scores will be good.
[1] Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s New Car Assessment Program (www.safercar.gov). Model tested with standard side airbags (SAB).
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