2023 Automotive Safety Performance Lexus “LBX” Announced – Unfortunately, it did not receive NASVA’s highest rating, the “Five Star Award”!

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and the National Agency for Automotive Safety and Victims’ Aid (NASVA) announced the results of the Lexus LBX’s vehicle safety evaluation on 2024. The car received a four-star rating, the second highest out of five. Unfortunately, it did not receive the highest rating of a five-star award.

“Automobile Assessment” evaluates and publishes automobile safety performance

The National Agency for Automotive Safety and Victims’ Aid (NASVA), a third-party organization, sets evaluation standards for automobile safety performance, and the Five Star Award is one of the highest safety performance evaluations given to cars that meet those standards. The Five Star Award represents a high evaluation of a car’s collision safety and advanced safety devices, and is an important indicator that consumers use as a reference when choosing a car.

Starting in fiscal 2020, these will be called “Automobile Safety Performance 2020,” and these will be evaluated comprehensively. The latest “Automobile Safety Performance 2022” will be announced in January 2023. Collision safety performance is scored out of 100 points, preventive safety performance out of 91 points (82 points for 2020-2021), and automatic accident emergency reporting systems out of 8 points, for a total score of 199 points (190 points for 2020-2021). However, to receive the highest rating, the “Five Star Award,” a vehicle must achieve the highest rating of A rank for collision safety performance and preventive safety performance, and be equipped with an automatic accident emergency reporting system.

From fiscal 2023, it will be called “Automobile Safety Performance 2023,” and from fiscal 2023, a new evaluation for pedestrian accidents will be introduced in the evaluation of “pedal misapplication acceleration suppression devices,” and the scoring will change in line with the change in the evaluation content.

Lexus “LBX” Automobile Safety Performance 2023

 The Lexus LBX is the 12th vehicle safety performance report released in 2023. The evaluation result was 182.82 points (out of 197). Preventive safety received 89.00 points (out of 89), collision safety received 85.82 points (out of 100), and the automatic emergency call system received 8 points (out of 8).

As you can see from the video, the advanced preventive safety features are almost perfect, so you can rest assured. The main reason for the lower score this time is likely due to the low level 3 in the pedestrian protection (head) test.

Latest Automotive Information

Lexus’ new “LBX” compact SUV to be released on November 9, 2023 | Latest Automotive Information Lexus will unveil its new SUV model, the LBX, on June 5, 2023, with a global debut and launch in Japan on November 9, 2023. Lexus will also be introducing a new compact SUV. The Japanese Patent Office also announced the launch on August 3, 2020.

Safe Car Ranking

When we rank the cars that will be released as current models in 2023 in order of NASVA’s overall ranking of car safety performance, the Subaru Levorg, which received the highest score in the 2020 Car Safety Performance ranking, received the highest score and a Five Star Award. Following it are the Subaru Legacy and Legacy Outback, also made by the same company. This highlights the high performance of EyeSight. Furthermore, the top rankings are again dominated by recently released models, clearly showing how improvements in safety equipment have influenced the scores. The CX-60 came in fourth place.

*Please note: This ranking is based solely on overall score. For the reasons stated above, the overall score differs depending on the evaluation year. When viewing, please also consider the year and total score. Starting with “Automobile Safety Performance 2023,” a new evaluation for pedestrian accidents has been introduced in the evaluation of “pedal misapplication acceleration suppression devices.” As the scoring system has changed with the change in evaluation content, direct comparisons of the scores given to vehicles previously evaluated for safety performance are not possible.

*Based on the latest automobile information

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NASVA News Release

https://www.nasva.go.jp/gaiyou/pdf/2024/20240424_2.pdf

NASVA

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

https://www.nasva.go.jp/mamoru/assessment_car/detail/260