2025 Audi Q6 e-tron Earns IIHS 2025 TOP SAFETY PICK+ Award

[Source: Audi]

The 2025 Audi Q6 e-tron has earned the 2025 TOP SAFETY PICK+ award, the highest accolade from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The 2025 Q6 e-tron earned this distinction by meeting new 2025 criteria focused on rear-passenger safety during the IIHS moderate-overlap front collision test. In addition to its extensive list of standard and available safety-enhancing features, the Audi Q6 e-tron adds this top industry acknowledgement to its overall consumer appeal.

IIHS made earning its highest TOP SAFETY PICK+ award more difficult for 2025 by altering the criteria behind its moderate-overlap front test, which simulates a head-on collision in which the test vehicle strikes a vehicle of equal size and weight at 40 mph with 40% of their front widths overlapping. The new test includes an additional test dummy better representing smaller occupants positioned in the second row behind the driver and uses new metrics that focus on the injuries most frequently seen in rear-seat occupants. The Q6 e-tron received the top “good” rating in the updated test, which is required to qualify for the highest “plus” rating.

To garner the 2025 TOP SAFETY PICK+ award earned by the Audi Q6 e-tron, vehicles must also earn “good” ratings in the small overlap front and updated side tests as well as an “acceptable” or “good” rating in the pedestrian front crash prevention evaluation, which gauges performance in both daytime and nighttime conditions. All trims must be equipped with acceptable- or good-rated headlights. The Q6 e-tron received a “good” rating in each of these requirements.