The safest luxury cars, ranked against every vehicle

These 2 luxury cars are ranked by how often their drivers die in real-world crashes. Unlike crash-test ratings, each one is also placed on a single scale with all 129 ranked vehicles, so you can see how luxury cars stack up against every other kind of vehicle. The typical luxury car scores 64 out of 100.

Safest luxury car: Lexus ES 350, with 18 driver deaths per million vehicle years, 47th of 129 overall.

Older luxury cars

These luxury cars only appear in the earlier IIHS study, so they're ranked among 2020 models.

• Audi A4 (2017–2020 models, score 79)
• Mercedes-Benz C-Class sedan (2017–2020 models, score 76)
• Mercedes-Benz E-Class sedan (2017–2020 models, score 75)
• Tesla Model S 4WD (2017–2020 models, score 71)

Other vehicle types

• Safest cars
• Safest sports cars
• Safest wagons and minivans
• Safest pickups
• Safest SUVs
• Safest luxury SUVs
• Safest large vans

* Driver deaths per million registered vehicle years.