The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has published its latest round of crash test results, and it's a mixed bag for Toyota. While its 2026 model year Tacoma earned the maximum ratings in the updated side impact test and the small overlap front evaluation, the crew-cabbed midsizer couldn't do better than "marginal" in the moderate overlap front crash test.
Said test is designed to evaluate what happens when a motor vehicle collides head-on with a fixed offset barrier or an oncoming vehicle. In the real world, crashes rarely happen dead-center. Many drivers instinctively swerve, causing one side of the front end to absorb the brunt of the kinetic energy.
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