2023 Honda Accord earns more durable IIHS Prime Security Choose+ award

Similar to its predecessor, the redesigned 2023 Honda Accord has earned the very best honors, the Prime Security Choose+ award, from the Insurance coverage Institute for Freeway Security. This can be a larger deal than it might appear, although, because the IIHS has made its necessities extra stringent for the award. Which means the 2023 Honda Accord is definitely even safer than the previous one, and the IIHS has the info to indicate it.

The important thing areas the place the Accord improved are in aspect impression safety and headlights. The IIHS up to date the side-impact take a look at to make use of a heavier ramming car to simulate the truth that extra automobiles on the highway are bigger, heavier SUVs. The previous Accord solely acquired a “Marginal” score, which would not be ample for the award (“Acceptable” is the minimal requirement). The brand new one acquired the very best “Good” score. The Accord’s redesigned headlights are additionally rated “Good” and can be found throughout the road, whereas the previous mannequin had two sorts with one rated simply “Acceptable.”

The remainder of the brand new Accord’s take a look at outcomes had been at the least nearly as good as earlier than. It handed all the opposite crash exams with flying colours, and youngster seat LATCH anchor entry was even rated “Good+.” The vehicle-to-pedestrian crash prevention programs that IIHS exams additionally carried out the identical with a “Superior” score within the day, and a barely decrease “Superior” score at evening. 

Proper now, the one different household sedan to attain the Prime Security Choose+ result’s the Toyota Camry. The Hyundai Sonata and Subaru Legacy had been each rated as common Prime Security Picks. However the Subaru Outback, intently associated to the Legacy, will get the Prime Security Choose+ award. 

The brand new Accord additionally already impressed us in most elements, resembling wonderful driving dynamics and a much-improved inside. So with it being even safer, it is simple for us to advocate the Accord. It is about the very best household sedan within the section.

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