The 30 Safest Cars in America: 2019 Models

By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Jan 11, 1:31PM EST · Published Dec 19, 6:40AM EST

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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) released its list of the safest 2019 automobile models. Each received the organization’s Top Safety Pick+ designation, its highest award.

Top Safety Pick+ is defined by the IIHS as having “the highest rating for passenger-side protection in a small overlap front crash and have good-rated available headlights.” These also must have included good ratings in the “driver-side and passenger-side small overlap front, moderate overlap front, side, roof strength and head restraint tests.” These five tests are used to determine the total safety of a car.

Subaru had the most winners with seven of the 30. This was followed by Hyundai Motor, which owns the Hyundai, Kia and Genesis brands. Mercedes-Benz and Toyota, along with its luxury brand Lexus, also had multiple models.

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The entire list of 30:

Small cars

Honda Insight
Hyundai Elantra (built after September 2018)
Kia Forte
Kia Niro hybrid
Kia Niro Plug-In Hybrid
Subaru Crosstrek
Subaru Impreza four-door sedan
Subaru Impreza wagon
Subaru WRX

Midsize cars

Hyundai Sonata
Kia Optima
Subaru Legacy
Subaru Outback
Toyota Camry

Midsize luxury cars

Genesis G70
Lexus ES

Large car

Toyota Avalon (built after September 2018)

Large luxury cars

BMW 5 series
Genesis G80
Genesis G90
Mercedes-Benz E-Class four-door sedan

Small SUVs

Hyundai Kona
Mazda CX-5

Midsize SUVs

Hyundai Santa Fe
Kia Sorento
Subaru Ascent

Midsize luxury SUVs

Acura RDX
BMW X3
Mercedes-Benz GLC
Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.