Dearborn, MI — March 26, 2026
The awards keep stacking up! The 2026 Ford Mustang Mach-E earned TOP SAFETY PICK awards from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).
These awards recognize vehicles that achieve high performance in IIHS’ rigorous crashworthiness and crash-avoidance evaluations. In order to achieve a TOP SAFETY PICK award, a vehicle must receive good ratings in the small overlap front test and updated side impact tests, and no less than an acceptable rating in the updated moderate overlap front test, as well as an acceptable or good rating in pedestrian front crash prevention evaluation, which gauges performance in both daytime and nighttime conditions. All trims must be equipped with acceptable or good-rated headlights.
“Safety is top of mind in everything we do,” said Bob Holycross, Ford’s chief sustainability, environment and safety officer. “We’re proud of these achievements and remain committed to improving vehicle safety through rigorous testing, advanced research, and a relentless focus on real-world data.”
2024-2025 Mustang Mach-E also achieved a five-star overall safety rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
To learn more about the Mustang Mach-E visit Fenton’s Presidents Award Winning Dealership, Lasco Ford
About the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is an independent, nonprofit scientific and educational organization dedicated to reducing deaths, injuries and property damage from motor vehicle crashes through research and evaluation and through education of consumers, policymakers and safety professionals.
IIHS was founded in 1959 by three major insurance associations representing 80% of the U.S. auto insurance market. At first, the Institute’s purpose was to support highway safety efforts by others. A decade later, IIHS was reinvented as an independent research organization. William Haddon Jr., M.D., who served as the nation’s first federal highway safety chief, oversaw this transition after becoming president of IIHS in 1969. By then, he already was leading the transformation of the highway safety field from one focused solely on crash prevention to one using a modern, scientific approach to identify a full range of options for reducing crash losses. In particular:
- Human factors research addresses problems associated with teenage drivers, alcohol-impaired driving, truck driver fatigue and seat belt use, to name a few.
- Vehicle research focuses on both crash avoidance and crashworthiness. Crash tests are central to crashworthiness research, and IIHS testing expanded with the opening of the Vehicle Research Center (VRC).
- Research about the physical environment includes, for example, assessment of roadway designs to reduce run-off-the-road crashes and eliminate roadside hazards.
This scientific approach has been remarkably successful. The number of people killed on roads in the United States, while still far too high, has fallen since 1979, even as the population and the number of miles driven have climbed. Much of this improvement is a result of safer vehicles.
