Genesis GV70 Models Earn Top Safety Honors in US IIHS Crash Evaluation: A New Standard for Electric and Gas-Powered Vehicles

Luxury brand Genesis has once again proven its top safety standard.

Genesis announced on the 22nd (Sunday) that the GV70 and GV70 electric models were upgraded to the highest rating of ‘Top Safety Pick Plus (TSP+)’ in the crash evaluation announced by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) in the United States.

With this announcement, Genesis, which has a total of seven models selected for TSP+, has the honor of being the brand with the most TSP+ models among the car brands evaluated under the strengthened criteria this year. (※ 2nd place Mazda (6), tied for 3rd place Honda, Hyundai Motors (4))

Genesis has once again proven the highest level of collision safety and prevention performance by receiving the TSP+ grade in the enhanced crash evaluation for ▲GV60 ▲G80 electrified models ▲GV80 in February of this year, ▲G80 ▲G90 in April of this year, and now ▲GV70 ▲GV70 electrified models.

IIHS is a non-profit organization founded in 1959 that comprehensively evaluates the crashworthiness and crash prevention performance of vehicles released on the U.S. market every year and announces the results.

The results of this crash evaluation are more meaningful in that they meet the evaluation criteria that have been strengthened since this year.

Vehicles that demonstrate the highest level of safety are given a TSP+ rating, while vehicles that demonstrate a good level of safety are given a TSP rating.

Starting this year, the reinforced crash evaluations have stricter standards for rear-seat passenger protection and pedestrian collision prevention systems, making it more difficult to obtain an excellent rating.

The moderate front overlap evaluation additionally deploys a rear seat dummy (human body model) to check the possibility of injury to rear seat passengers in the event of a frontal collision, and to obtain TSP+, a grade of ‘acceptable’ or higher in this category is required.

In addition, for the small overlap front crash evaluation, previously separate evaluation grades were given for the driver-side and passenger-side, but from now on, IIHS will combine the driver-side and passenger-side small overlap evaluations into one and give the lower grade of the two as the final grade.

In the case of pedestrian crash prevention evaluations, previously, if a vehicle received a grade of ‘advanced’ or higher during the daytime only after conducting day/night tests separately, the TSP requirement was met, but from now on, a grade of ‘acceptable’ or higher must be obtained in a combined test that integrates day and night to receive TSP+/TSP.

To receive the TSP+ rating, a vehicle must receive the highest rating of ‘good’ in three crash safety evaluations: ▲small overlap front ▲moderate front overlap ▲side collision.

Additionally, the vehicle must receive an acceptable rating or higher in the day/night forward crash prevention system tests (vehicle and pedestrian), and an acceptable rating or higher in the headlight evaluation for all trims of the vehicle.

Genesis provides customers with vehicles with excellent safety by installing various advanced driving safety assistance features on all models, including ▲Forward Collision-Avoidance Assist (FCA) ▲Lane Keeping Assist (LKA) ▲Blind-Spot Collision-Avoidance Assist (BCA) ▲Rear Cross-Traffic Collision-Avoidance Assist (RCCA) ▲Intelligent Speed ​​Limit Assist (ISLA) ▲Driver Attention Warning (DAW) ▲Highway Driving Assist (HDA).

A Genesis official said, “Genesis places the highest priority on customer safety,” and added, “The acquisition of TSP+ for the GV70 and GV70 electric model, as well as the highest rating for many of our models, is a testament to Genesis’ efforts to provide the safest vehicles.”