Six Hundai Models Earn 2012 IIHS Top Safety Pick Honors

Six models in the Hyundai line-up, the all-new Hyundai Elantra, Sonata, Genesis, Equus, Tucson and Santa Fe, all achieved the 2012 Top Safety Pick honor from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).  Top Safety Pick recognizes vehicles that do the best job of protecting people in front, side, rollover, and rear crashes based on “good” ratings in institute tests.  Winners must also have available Electronic Stability Control (ESC), a crash avoidance feature that significantly reduces crash risk.  The IIHS Top Safety pick ratings help consumers pick vehicles that offer a higher level of protection than federal safety standards require.  In 2010, the institute toughened the criteria for Top Safety Pick by adding a requirement that all qualifiers must earn a “good” rating for performance in a roof strength test to assess protection in a rollover crash.