2025 Mazda CX-70s Named IIHS Top Safety Pick

If there was still any doubt about the new 2025 Mazda CX-70 SUV being simply a two-row version of the eight-passenger Mazda CX-90, the former’s recognition as an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Top Safety Pick should put it to rest. That’s because the gas CX-70 and its plug-in hybrid variant have each been placed on the agency’s lesser award list without having been crash-tested. They earn their place, in Mazda’s words, because the CX-70s “employ the same advanced safety systems and strong foundation as CX-90 models.”

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Those with an encyclopedic recall of safety stats will note the CX-90 is a Top Safety Pick+, the highest designation given by IIHS. (The CX-90 PHEV remains a mere Top Safety Pick, pending additional crash-testing.) Both Top Safety Pick awards demand vehicles score the top rating of good in two frontal crash tests and a side impact test. Their standard headlights must also rate good or acceptable, and their front crash-prevention technology must earn an acceptable or good rating in pedestrian detection tests.

To be promoted to Top Safety Pick+, a vehicle must also score good in the agency’s updated moderate overlap front crash test, in which the vehicle travels at 40 mph into a barrier with a deformable aluminum honeycomb face that covers 40% of the vehicle’s width; this test is meant to simulate an offset head-on impact between two vehicles traveling roughly 40 mph. The updated test places a small dummy simulating a child or small female behind the driver in addition to the original test’s average male driver dummy.

The CX-70, CX-70 PHEV and CX-90 PHEV are all scheduled to undergo the updated moderate overlap crash test later in 2024 Mazda expects all three to perform well — er, good — and be named Top Safety Pick+ winners. No surprise there.

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