Top Safe Vehicles of 2018

Safety remains a top priority for vehicle shoppers. While price, features, and performance matter, ensuring your family’s protection is essential.

The federal government conducts comprehensive crash testing, evaluating frontal, side, and rollover impacts, and assigns overall ratings. Vehicles must pass various assessments such as moderate overlap front, side crash, small overlap front, roof strength, and head restraint tests to earn good ratings. Additionally, their front crash prevention and headlight quality are considered. The cars listed below stand out in 2018 for their exceptional safety performance.

Toyota Camry
The 2018 Toyota Camry, redesigned for post and equipped with advanced safety features, leads the list of safest midsize sedans. It ranks highly in IIHS and NHTSA crash tests. Safety features include automatic high beams, lane departure alert, adaptive cruise control, steering assist, pedestrian detection, and pre-collision systems. Additional available options include head-up display, rear cross-traffic alert, blind spot monitoring, full-speed adaptive cruise, and rear cross-traffic braking.

Honda Accord
Recognized with a five-star safety rating from NHTSA, the 2018 Honda Accord impresses with its comprehensive safety tech. Standard features cover crash prevention systems, rearview camera, traffic sign recognition, lane keep assist, lane departure warning, forward collision warning, and collision mitigation braking.

Honda Civic
The 2018 Honda Civic received top safety ratings in frontal, side, and rollover evaluations, earning five stars overall. It features collision avoidance systems, lane departure alerts, adaptive cruise, and blind spot camera systems. Despite excellent crash protection, its headlights are rated poor, so it is not a top safety pick.

Kia Cadenza
The 2018 Kia Cadenza lacks NHTSA ratings but achieves top classifications from IIHS. It boasts superior scores in crash prevention and headlight performance. Standard safety features include rearview camera, with options for 360-degree cameras, head-up display, blind spot detection, forward collision with auto braking, lane departure warnings, and adaptive cruise control.

Buick LaCrosse
The 2018 Buick LaCrosse earned a five-star NHTSA rating, performing well across all safety tests. It offers rearview camera, parking sensors, and higher trims include active park assist, blind spot monitors, lane departure alerts, rear cross-traffic alert, pedestrian detection, forward collision warning, automatic emergency braking, and a vibration-based safety alert seat.

Nissan Maxima
The 2018 Nissan Maxima excels in crash testing, receiving top scores in all IIHS evaluations. It includes features like rearview camera, emergency braking system, forward collision warning, driver drowsiness detection, blind spot monitoring, 360-degree camera, parking sensors, adaptive cruise control, and rear cross traffic alert.