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2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee, L earn IIHS Top Safety Pick+ nods

2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee, L earn IIHS Top Safety Pick+ nods



Jeep's bread-and-butter family SUVs both received top marks from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) after some mid-stream tweaks to their available headlights. Both the 2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Grand Cherokee L are now rated Top Safety Pick+, which is the watchdog's highest rating, after missing the mark at launch due to underperforming headlights.

To qualify for the 2023 Top Safety Pick+ award, a car must earn "Good" ratings in the Institute's driver-side small overlap front, passenger-side small overlap front, updated side and original moderate overlap front tests. Acceptable or good headlights must be standard across all trims, and a front crash prevention system that earns "Advanced" or "Superior" ratings in the daytime and nighttime vehicle-to-pedestrian tests must be available.

Due to the aforementioned headlight hiccups, the Top Safety Pick+ rating applies only to Grand Cherokee models built after March, 2023 and Grand Cherokee L models built after May, 2023 — when the respective models received headlight upgrades that improved their performance enough to qualify.