If you want to understand how far automotive engineering has come in the last three decades, you don’t look at horsepower ...

Extreme car crash testing shows what really happens when vehicles are pushed into hard impacts, violent collisions, and ...

Need proof that cars are much safer than they were 30 years ago? The red oval thing near the pillar on this blue 1995 Blazer ...

Diversified Technical Systems, Inc. (DTS), a VPG company and leading manufacturer of data acquisition systems and sensors for crash safety testing, has been named the 2026 Supplier of the Year by ...

Many buyers take into account safety ratings when purchasing a new vehicle, but it’s not always easy to quantify how valuable ...

Only two new vehicles earned top scores from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's latest crash testing: the 2026 Hyundai Palisade and 2026 Toyota Prius hybrid.

To put the Chevy Bolt back into production on schedule, GM engineers relied on virtual crash testing software to "reduce the number of cars we run into walls." Virtual crash testing is exactly what it ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) crashes about 80 new cars annually to identify safety flaws. IIHS uses real-world crash data to determine which tests to conduct and how to improve ...

Since independent vehicle crash testing began in the mid-1990s, automakers have been incentivized to make safety changes that have saved thousands of lives each year. Now, a new group is hoping to ...

Vehicle improvements spurred by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS)’s testing program have saved nearly 50,000 ...

IIHS crashed a 1996 Chevrolet Blazer into a 2026 model to gauge how much progress has been made in the 30 years it's been crash-testing cars. Spoiler: There's been a lot.

Ahead of its scheduled official launch at the end of the month, images of the crash-tested vehicle emerge online. Crash testing isn’t glamorous, but the Chery-Jaguar-Land Rover partnership has had the ...