Stellantis Is the Only Major Automaker With Zero IIHS Safety Awards. For Two Years Straight.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety handed out 63 safety awards for 2026. Toyota earned them, Hyundai earned them, Subaru and Mazda and Honda and Nissan and Kia and BMW and Audi and Volvo and Genesis and even Tesla earned them. Stellantis earned zero.^[1]

Not one Top Safety Pick, not one Top Safety Pick+. Jeep, Dodge, Ram, Chrysler, Alfa Romeo, Fiat: every brand under the Stellantis umbrella was shut out completely. According to the Detroit Free Press, this is the second consecutive year that not a single Stellantis vehicle qualified for any IIHS award.^[2]

GM and Ford at least scraped together a few. Buick's Enclave, Chevy's Traverse, and GMC's Acadia earned Top Safety Pick, and Ford got the Explorer and Mustang Mach-E into TSP+. Even the Tesla Cybertruck won TSP+ for large pickups, beating every Ram on the lot.^[1]

IIHS toughened its criteria in 2026, adding a new moderate overlap front test and requiring better backseat occupant protection and vehicle-to-vehicle crash prevention at 31, 37, and 43 mph.^[3] Several non-Stellantis models failed too: Cadillac's CT5, Lexus IS, and Toyota Tacoma Crew Cab all missed the cut, but those automakers had other models that passed while Stellantis had none.

What makes this worse is where Stellantis vehicles land in the IIHS's own real-world death rate study, published July 2026. Dodge's Charger HEMI 2WD posted 127 driver deaths per million registered vehicle years and 161 other-driver deaths, giving it the highest combined death rate of any vehicle in the study. Chrysler's 300 hit 132 driver deaths, the Challenger landed at 125, the Durango at 83.^[4] Five Stellantis models appear in the 20 deadliest vehicles, and zero appear among the award winners.

A fair counterargument: IIHS awards reflect lab performance under specific conditions. Vehicles can miss the cut on headlights or seat belt reminders, not structural crashworthiness, and testing continues through September so a late entry remains possible. But two consecutive years of total shutout, across six brands and dozens of models, paired with some of the worst real-world fatality numbers in the country, is not a headlamp problem; it is a company-wide engineering deficit.

If you are shopping for a new vehicle and safety matters to you: check the IIHS ratings at iihs.org/ratings before visiting any Stellantis dealership. Every other major automaker in the United States earned at least one IIHS safety award in 2026. Stellantis earned none, and the company's vehicles dominate the IIHS real-world death-rate rankings. Until that changes, you are buying a brand that can't pass the test and can't survive the crash.