Want to know which are the safest cars and trucks on the road? The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will tell you. And it has awarded its top five-star rating once again to the Jeep Grand Cherokee.
The sport-ute scored top marks particularly for its performance for its frontal collision, vehicle side impact, and pole side impact tests. The only category where it received lower marks was in the rollover category, where it got four stars. That was still enough to earn it an overall rating of five stars, though.
We should also note that the five-star safety rating is for the four-wheel-drive model. The rear-drive version earned the same crash ratings, but scored just three out of five stars for rollover risk, dropping its overall rating down to four stars.
FCA boasts that this is the fourth straight year that the Jeep Grand Cherokee 4×4 has earned the five-star rating. The 2016 and 2015 models earned the same, as did the later release of 2014 (after the earlier version scored just four stars).
The Grand Cherokee also features an automatic emergency braking system that incorporates cameras and radar to detect imminent frontal collision to warn the driver, and preemptively apply the brakes if the driver doesn’t react.
Though the NHTSA acknowledges their benefits, it doesn’t take such systems into account in its ratings like the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety does with its Top Safety Pick + rating. That rating has eluded the Jeep Grand Cherokee year after year, having last earned the unenhanced Top Safety Pick in 2013.
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