IIHS Research Scientist Rebecca Weast said cost was a big factor in their list.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Consumer Reports on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, released an updated list of recommended vehicles for teens. “We don't want to put this list out and have people’s takeaway be that they are priced out of being safe,” she said.“More advanced safety features are starting to show up in used cars that are more affordable,” Weast said.
Teens are more likely to be involved in speeding-related crashes or single-vehicle crashes in which they lose control and run off the road, she said. “So, we want to put teenagers in cars that are highly crashworthy,” Weast said. “They have to score as highly as they can on most of our crash test metrics ... and we also want them to be slightly bigger and heavier. We kind of avoid the extremes. So, we don't want to put kids in very large SUVs, and we also don't want them in teeny tiny micro-mini cars.”
Models from Toyota, Mazda, Honda, Volvo, Subaru, Hyundai, Chevrolet, Kia, Lexus, Nissan, GMC, Ford, Infiniti and BMW all show up on the lists.A lot of teens get hand-me-downs, so she suggested their recommendations could even be useful for parents of younger children who are currently looking for a new car for themselves.
“This is a great resource, because you're going to put your family in something that's really safe, and you're going to have a car that's very good, solid, safe piece of equipment to hand down to your kid when they start driving,” she said.
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