Audi has earned the 2023 IIHS Top Safety Pick Award, which includes five models that made it shine brightest among its competitors. The 2024 Audi Q8 e-tron is the latest model to receive the safety acknowledgment. Also, joining all of Audi’s fully electric SUVs secured the position of the highest 2023 Top Safety Pick+ rating based on crashworthiness and other factors such as crash avoidance and lighting technology.
At Audi, “customer safety is a top priority,” every day, we are trying to enhance the safety-enhancing safety technology and continue to earn the appreciation of independent industry organizations. The engineers at Audi constantly develop vehicles that achieve ever more challenging safety benchmarks.
IIHS announced the strengthening of its award requirements in February 2023. It includes an updated side crash test, which involves 82 percent more energy than the original, and a new night-time vehicle to pedestrian front crash prevention test.
The Audi Q4 e-Tron and Audi Q4 Sportback have standard front crash prevention systems with advanced daytime and night-time pedestrian test ratings. It has a traditional crash avoidance system on Audi Q8, Q8 e-tron, and Audi Q8 Sportsback with superior ratings.
