The 2018 BMW X3 has earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's Top Safety Pick+, when the midsize luxury SUV is equipped with optional front crash prevention and specific headlights.
by Staff
April 18, 2018
2 min to read
Photo of 2018 BMW X3 crash test courtesy of IIHS.
The 2018 BMW X3 has earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's Top Safety Pick+, when the midsize luxury SUV is equipped with optional front crash prevention and specific headlights.
The BMW X3 earned the award after it was redesigned and achieved a good rating on both the driver-side and passenger-side small overlap protection tests. The previous generation of the vehicle was never tested for small overlap protection on either side. In the recent test, the newly-designed car delivered a strong performance with maximum intrusion of 2 inches on one side of the toepan on both the driver and passenger sides.
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The 2018 X3 is available with two optional front crash prevention systems, Frontal Collision Warning with City Collision Mitigation and Frontal Collision Warning with Extended Collision Mitigation. Both earn a superior rating. In IIHS track tests at 12 mph and 25 mph, X3s equipped with either system avoided collisions.
Both systems also feature a forward collision warning component that meets National Highway Traffic Safety Administration criteria.
The headlights included with the X3's Executive package garnered a good rating. The two other available headlight systems earn a marginal rating.
Criteria for capturing a 2018 Top Safety Pick+ award include a good rating in the driver-side small overlap front, moderate overlap front, side, roof strength and head restraint tests; an acceptable or good rating in the passenger-side small overlap front test; an advanced or superior rating for front crash prevention; and a good headlight rating.
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