After smashing up a long list of perfectly good cars, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has released the results along with its list of “Top Safety Pick” vehicles and Toyota isn’t on it. In order to get a “Top Safety Pick” rating, a vehicle must score a “good” rating (the IIHS’s highest rating), in all four crash categories, as well as be available with stability control. Toyota vehicles have been Top Picks for three straight years.

Toyota is the only one of the big six automakers in the U.S. to not have a car on the Top Pick list. Many automakers did, however, have their number of Top Picks reduced, thanks to the new rollover rating. In total the 2010 list is down to 27  vehicles, from 94 last year.

The automaker with the most Top Picks is Ford, but that is due to the fact that it still owns Volvo, which made up four of the six picks. Both Volkswagen and Subaru managed five Top Safety Picks, meaning that every Subaru product is now on the list.

The closest Toyota to making the list was the Camry, losing out only because the IIHS gave it a “marginal” rating for a rear crash due to seats and headrests that don’t provide enough protection against whiplash.

[Source: AutoWeek]

See a full list of the 201o IIHS Top Safety Picks after the jump:

With a recent barrage of testing performed by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), Subaru was recognized as the only automaker to get a Top Safety Pick rating for every vehicle in its lineup.

What this means it that every Subaru vehicle meets the IIHS’s highest standards, receiving a “good” rating (the highest possible), for front, side, rear and (new for 2010) rollover crashes. On top of this, to receive the Top Safety Pic rating, the car must come with stability control.

“Subaru is the only manufacturer with a Top Safety Pick winner in every vehicle class in which it competes,” said IIHS president Adrian Lund. “The vehicles that earn this designation are the cream of the crop for protecting people in the most common kinds of crashes, and they have electronic stability control for helping drivers stay out of many crashes altogether.”

Subaru of America VP Tom Doll expressed his pleasure in the news stating that,  “This is an outstanding success and a tribute to the engineering that goes into Subaru products. To have this recognition by the IIHS reinforces to our customers that we maintain the highest standards when producing vehicles that are safe, durable, reliable as well as fun-to-drive.”

Subaru’s Top Safety Pick rating is even more impressive than normal, as the IIHS’s new roof safety tests resulted in fewer Top Safety Pick awards being handed out with past winners like the Honda Accord and Ford Fusion droping from the list.

Several months ago we reported that Acura has achieved an historic first by earning a perfect rating by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) for every vehicle in its lineup.

Now Acura has claimed another manufacturer first after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) awarded the new Acura TL a perfect 5 star rating. Along with the TL, every other vehicle Acura sells has a perfect 5 star rating from the NHTSA, giving the company the best possible safety score in every vehicle it sells, in both recognized safety

This not only means that the Acura lineup is safe when it comes to withstanding an impact, but the IIHS requires stability control (a life-saving technology) to be on a car in order for it to be award a Top Safety Pick rating.

“No other automotive brand has accomplished what Acura has, nor can make the safety claims that Acura can,” said John Mendel, executive vice president of automobile sales. “When consumers think safety, they really should think Acura.”

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