Eight 2024 Acura & Honda Models Earn IIHS Top Safety Ratings

  • 2024 Acura Integra and MDX earn the pinnacle TSP+ award; RDX earns TSP
  • 2024 Honda Accord and HR-V earn TSP+ award; CR-V, Odyssey and Pilot earn TSP
  • All awarded Acura and Honda models score top GOOD rating in rigorous updated side crash test

Three Acura models and five Honda models have earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s (IIHS) TOP SAFETY PICK (TSP) rating or better for 2024, with four achieving the pinnacle TOP SAFETY PICK+ (TSP+) rating. Contributing to the top ratings, each of the eight models achieved the top GOOD score in the institute’s rigorous updated side crash test, which involves 82 percent more crash energy than the original test.

AcuraWatch™ and Honda Sensing® driver-assistive and safety technology is now standard on every Acura and Honda automobile model, and there are more than seven million Acura and Honda vehicles on U.S. roads today featuring these comprehensive suites of safety and driver-assistive technologies, which now include Collision Mitigation Braking System™ (CMBS™) with Pedestrian Detection; Forward Collision Warning; Road Departure Mitigation (RDM) incorporating Lane Departure Warning (LDW); Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS); and Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC).

All Acura and Honda vehicles benefit from Honda’s proprietary Advanced Compatibility Engineering™ (ACE™) body structure, designed to protect occupants in a wide variety of frontal collisions, along with advanced supplemental restraint systems, such as pretensioning front seatbelts, and front, side, knee and side-curtain airbags.

Acura 2024 IIHS Award Winners:
2024 Acura Integra (TSP+)
2024 Acura MDX (TSP+)
2024 Acura RDX (TSP)

Honda 2024 IIHS Award Winners:
2024 Honda Accord (TSP+)
2024 Honda CR-V (TSP)
2024 Honda HR-V (TSP+)
2024 Honda Odyssey (TSP)
2024 Honda Pilot (TSP)

For More Information
Consumer information is available at Acura.com and automobiles.honda.com. Additional media information including detailed pricing features and high-resolution photography of all 2024 Acura and Honda models is available at hondanews.com.

About Acura and Honda Safety Leadership
Based on its vision for a collision-free society, Honda is working to improve safety for everyone sharing the road, an approach Honda calls “Safety for Everyone.” The company operates two of the world’s most sophisticated crash-test facilities in Ohio and Japan and is responsible for numerous pioneering efforts in the areas of crashworthiness, collision compatibility and pedestrian safety.

Advanced passive safety features include Honda’s proprietary Advanced Compatibility Engineering™ (ACE™) body structure and next-generation passenger front airbag technology, which are designed to provide a high level of collision protection for occupants. Advanced active safety and driver-assistive systems found in Honda Sensing® and AcuraWatch™ technologies, now on more than 7 million vehicles on U.S. roads, are designed to reduce the frequency and severity of collisions while also serving as a technological and perceptual bridge to the more highly automated vehicles of the future.

About Honda
Honda offers a full line of clean, safe, fun and connected vehicles sold through more than 1,000 independent U.S. Honda dealers. The award-winning Honda lineup includes the Civic and Accord, along with the HR-V, CR-V, Passport and Pilot sport utility vehicles, the Ridgeline pickup and the Odyssey minivan. Honda's electrified vehicle lineup includes the Accord hybrid, CR-V hybrid, and later this year, Civic hybrid. The Honda Prologue SUV, Honda's first volume battery-electric vehicle, joins the lineup this Spring.

Honda has been producing automobiles in America for over 40 years and currently operates 18 major manufacturing facilities in North America. In 2022, more than 99% of all Honda vehicles sold in the U.S. were made in North America, with more than two-thirds made in America, using domestic and globally sourced parts. .More information about Honda is available in the Digital FactBook.

About Acura
Acura is a leading automotive brand committed to delivering expressive styling, innovative engineering and high-performance, all built on the brand's Precision Crafted Performance DNA. The Acura lineup consists of two sport sedans, the Integra and TLX, and three sport-utility vehicles, the RDX, MDX and all-electric ZDX. A line of high-performance Type S variants further demonstrate the virtues of Acura Precision Crafted Performance. All Acura vehicles sold in America are made in the U.S., using domestic and globally sourced parts.

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