5 SUVs With the Best Safety Ratings in 2025
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Travis Woods
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Zuri Anderson
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It’s almost 2025, which means there are entire fleets of new vehicles hitting the showrooms of car, truck and SUV dealerships across America.
With so many vehicles to choose from, each armed with so many technical details and acronyms, it can be overwhelming to shop for a new SUV to take off the lot — especially for the right price.
SUV shoppers are, typically, buying a vehicle for their entire family; as such, safety is of paramount importance — it pays to know which rides are the safest before you even set foot in the dealership.
Recently, Car and Driver compiled a list of the safest SUVs of 2025, based on testing and date from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
From that large list, GOBankingRates has compiled the five safest SUVs for shoppers in 2025.
2025 Genesis GV80
- Starting price: $59,550
As far as safety goes, the Genesis GV80 simply can’t be beat.
It comes standard with an adaptive cruise control with semi-autonomous driving mode that “learns how the owner drives and mimics that person’s driving style while in use,” emergency braking with pedestrian detection and lane-departure warning with lane-keeping assist.
2025 Kia Telluride
- Starting price: $37,585
Much like the Genesis, the Kia Telluride is absolutely stacked with modern safety features to protect its passengers.
In addition to basics like forward-collision warning systems with automated emergency braking, lane-departure warnings and lane-keeping assists, and blind-spot monitoring, the Telluride is also loaded with automatic high-beams, a 360-degree camera system and Kia’s Blind-Spot View Monitor that “projects a camera image of the vehicle’s blind spot into the gauge cluster display.”
2025 Mazda CX-30
- Starting price: $26,415
Much like the vehicles on this list, the Mazda CX-30 rolls off the lot with automated emergency braking and pedestrian detection, lane-departure warning with lane-keeping assist and adaptive cruise control.
On top of that, though, it has a host of intriguing optional features like a heads-up display, as well as traffic sign recognition.
2025 Mazda CX-50
- Starting price: $31,720
The Mazda CX-50 comes with everything included in its sibling, the CX-30, but also allows for options such as automatic high-beam headlamps and a 360-degree exterior camera system.
2025 Volvo XC90
- Starting price: $58,695
As Car and Driver has noted, “Volvo’s commitment to safety is legendary,” and in that realm, the Volvo XC90 doesn’t disappoint.
The highly-rated vehicle is loaded with automated emergency braking (with pedestrian and cyclist detection), lane-departure warning and lane-keeping assist and adaptive cruise control with a lane-centering feature.
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