The Hyundai Santa Fe has earned the US Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's (IIHS) Top Safety Pick award. The Hyundai Santa Fe was recognised for its ability to protect people in front, side and rear crashes.

The Hyundai Santa Fe has earned the Top Safety Pick Award by the US Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).

The Santa Fe also earned five-star crash test ratings, the highest government rating under NHTSA's New Car Assessment Program, for both frontal and side impact.

Top Safety Pick awards recognise vehicles that do the best job of protecting people in front, side and rear crashes based on ratings in the institute's tests. Each vehicle's overall evaluation is based on a variety of measures, including injuries to dummies, vehicle's structural performance, restraint performance etc.

According to the IIHS, "Designating winners based on the tests makes it easier for consumers to identify vehicles that afford the best overall protection without sifting through multiple sets of comparative crash test results."

Hyundai has more 2008 IIHS Top Safety Picks than BMW, Mercedes-Benz, or Toyota.

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