2021 Ford F-150 Improves Headlights, Gets IIHS Top Safety Pick Award

• The 2021 Ford-F150 crew-cab and extended-cab models have been given a Top Safety Pick award by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

• The big change came from the headlights; the 2021 F-150 now has optional LED setups that received Good and Acceptable ratings.

• The presence of the basic halogen lights on lower trim models, which received a Poor rating, prevented the F-150 from elevating to the highest Top Safety Pick+ award.

Automakers covet the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s Top Safety Pick awards, plastering them across advertisements and name-dropping them in TV spots to entice buyers into their latest offerings. While Ford probably doesn’t need any help selling the F-150 pickup truck—already the bestselling vehicle in the United States by a healthy margin—the Blue Oval now has another tool to promote its popular truck, with the IIHS announcing that the 2021 F-150 crew-cab and extended-cab models have received a Top Safety Pick award.