2023 Acura Integra Achieves Highest Possible IIHS Safety Score

The 2023 Acura Integra has made its triumphant return and, on top of that, has achieved the best possible score from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) as part of its 2022 year testing. Achieving a Top Safety Pick+ (TSP+) is not easy, as many new makes and models miss out for several reasons.

In the case of the Integra, it earned the TSP+ score thanks to getting a Good rating in all crashworthiness tests along with a Superior score in crash avoidance tests thanks, in part, to the sedan's advanced Collision Mitigation Braking System (CMBS).

The latter is part of the AcuraWatch suite of safety and driver-assist technologies. Some features in the CMBS include adaptive cruise control with a low-speed follow function and road departure mitigation technologies.

Like other Honda and Acura vehicles, the 2023 Integra boasts an advanced body structure explicitly designed to increase passenger protection and crash strength in frontal collisions. The structure features, according to Acura, "a network of connected structural elements to distribute crash energy more evenly throughout the front of the vehicle and reducing forces transferred to the passenger compartment."

The Integra is the fourth Acura with a TSP+ score (the others include the MDX, RDX, and TLX). For those who don't recall, earning a TSP+ rating requires a Good rating in the hard-to-pass passenger-side small overlap test.

Additional must-haves are a front crash prevention system with at least an advanced score, ideally a superior, in vehicle-to-vehicle and daytime vehicle-to-prevention testing.