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Safety and Driver Assistance Rating:
The 86’s NHTSA frontal crash and rollover ratings and IIHS test results are good, although a lack of active safety features holds it back from a Top Safety Pick award and a top safety score from us.
What’s New for 2018?
Both IIHS and NHTSA’s ratings carry over to 2018 from 2017 with no changes or updates, and Toyota has made no changes to the 86’s safety features.
2017 Toyota 86
Crash Test Results
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the nonprofit, independent Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) evaluate vehicles for crashworthiness in the United States. NHTSA assigns cars an overall rating out of five stars. IIHS uses a different set of tests, grades cars on a scale of Good to Poor, and awards the vehicles that perform best across its tests with Top Safety Pick or Top Safety Pick+ honors, the latter of which requires that the subject’s automated forward-collision-braking system performs well.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Test Results
2017 Toyota 86
*NHTSA has evaluated the 86 for frontal crashworthiness and rollover risk, but has not provided an overall rating.
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) Test Results
2017 Toyota 86
Airbags, Child Seats, and Spare Tire Location
In the same way that the 86’s rear seats are just about unusable for full-size humans, they’re equally unaccommodating of child seats. There are LATCH anchors in each rear cushion, but shoehorning a child perch through the doors is a needle-threading experience. Once a child seat is jammed inside the 86, one must go to the opposite door to reach across the back seat to tighten the child seat down.
Active Safety Features
Neither the Toyota 86 nor its Subaru BRZ sibling offer any active safety features. Missing from their option sheets (but available on the Mazda MX-5 Miata) are blind-spot monitoring, lane-departure warning, and adaptive headlights that steer into corners as the front wheels are turned.
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