On April 17, 2024, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and the National Agency for Automotive Safety and Victims’ Aid (NASVA) announced the results of an evaluation of the Lexus RX’s automobile safety performance, and announced that it had received the highest rating of the “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.
Overseas, automobile safety evaluation organizations such as the European New Car Assessment Program (Euro NCAP) and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) evaluate automobile crashworthiness and advanced safety devices.
Lexus RX receives highest rating in 2023 Automotive Safety Performance Index
The Lexus RX received the highest rating, the Five Star Award, in the 10th release of the 2023 Automotive Safety Performance Report. The evaluation result was 184.52 points (out of 197). Preventive safety received 88.82 points (out of 89), collision safety received 87.70 points (out of 100), and the automatic emergency call system received 8 points (out of 8).
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 Lexus RX came in 10th place.
| Ranking | Car name | Car name | Evaluation year | Overall car safety performance score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st place | Subaru | Impreza Crosstrek |
2023 | 193.53 points / 197 points |
| 2nd place | Toyota | Crown Crossover |
2023 | 188.39 points / 197 points |
| 3rd place | Subaru | Levorg | 2020 | 186.91 points / 190 points |
| 4th place | Mazda | CX-60 | 2023 | 186.77 points / 197 points |
| 5th place | Toyota | Voxy | 2022 | 186.44 points / 199 points |
| 6th place | Subaru | Solterra | 2022 | 186.16 points / 199 points |
| 7th place | Subaru | Legacy Outbank |
2021 | 185.02 points / 190 points |
| 8th place | Toyota | Sienta | 2022 | 185.33 points / 199 points |
| 9th place | Nissan | Sakura | 2022 | 184.92 points / 199 points |
| 10th place | Lexus | RX | 2023 | 184.52 points / 197 points |
| 11th place | Nissan | Serena | 2023 | 184.34 points / 197 points |
| 12th place | Lexus | NX | 2023 | 183.28 points / 197 points |
| 13th place | Mitsubishi | eK Cross EV | 2022 | 182.04 points / 199 points |
| 14th place | Toyota | Alphard Vellfire |
2023 | 181.78 points / 197 points |
| 15th place | Toyota | Prius | 2023 | 180.60 points / 197 points |
| 16th place | Nissan | X-Trail | 2023 | 180.34 points / 197 points |
| 17th place | Toyota | Corolla Cross | 2022 | 179.68 points / 199 points |
| 18th place | Toyota | Harrier | 2020 | 177.68 points / 190 points |
| 19th place | Honda | Vezel | 2021 | 177.04 points / 190 points |
| 20th place | Mitsubishi | Outlander | 2021 | 176.77 points / 190 points |
| 21st place | Nissan | Notes | 2021 | 176.73 points / 190 points |
| 22nd place | Nissan | Luke’s | 2020 | 176.54 points / 190 points |
| 23rd place | Nissan | Days | 2020 | 175.72 points / 190 points |
| 24th place | Toyota | Yaris Cross | 2020 | 175.70 points / 190 points |
| 25th place | Honda | fit | 2020 | 174.40 points / 190 points |
| 26th place | Toyota | Corolla Touring | 2021 | 173.81 points / 190 points |
| 27th place | Toyota | Aqua | 2021 | 173.79 points / 190 points |
| 28th place | Toyota | Yaris | 2020 | 173.41 points / 190 points |
| 29th place | Nissan | Kicks | 2021 | 172.31 points / 190 points |
| 30th place | Mitsubishi | eK Space | 2021 | 168.54 points / 190 points |
| 31st place | Mitsubishi | eK Wagon / eK Cross | 2020 | 167.72 points / 190 points |
| 32nd place | Mazda | CX-30 | 2021 | 167.07 points / 190 points |
| 33rd place | Daihatsu | Move Canvas | 2022 | 161.04 points / 199 points |
| 34th place | Daihatsu | Hijet Cargo Attray |
2022 | 155.19 points / 199 points |
| 35th place | Honda | N-ONE | 2021 | 153.16 points / 190 points |
| 36th place | Suzuki | Wagon R Smile | 2022 | 147.36 points / 199 points |
| 37th place | Suzuki | Hustler | 2020 | 146.93 points / 190 points |
*Based on the latest automobile information
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NASVA News Release
https://www.nasva.go.jp/gaiyou/pdf/2024/20240417_1.pdf
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