The 2021 Kia Seltos, earns top ratings for crashworthiness and front crash prevention, but poor headlights prevent it from qualifying for a 2020 safety award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).
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The Kia Seltos, which was introduced for the 2021 model year in the U.S., earns good ratings in all six of the Institute’s crashworthiness evaluations. These include the driver-side small overlap front, passenger-side small overlap front, moderate overlap front, side, roof strength and head restraint tests.
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The two optional front crash prevention systems — a camera-only system available with less costly trims and a camera-and-radar system available with the SX Turbo trim — each earn superior ratings in the Institute’s vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-pedestrian evaluations. Both systems avoided crashing into a target at 12 and 25 mph in the vehicle-to-vehicle tests and avoided crashes or slowed substantially to reduce the severity of impact in three different pedestrian scenarios.
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The Kia Seltos is available with three different headlight packages: base-level halogens, halogens with high-beam assist, and LEDs. All three packages are rated poor due to inadequate illumination on curves.
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With at least one good or acceptable headlight rating, the Kia Seltos would have qualified for a 2020 TOP SAFETY PICK award. Good or acceptable headlight ratings across all trim levels would have earned it the higher-tier TOP SAFETY PICK+ award.
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