The safest luxury SUVs, ranked against every vehicle

These 24 luxury SUVs 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 SUVs stack up against every other kind of vehicle. The typical luxury SUV scores 78 out of 100.

Safest luxury SUV: BMW X7 4WD, with 0 driver deaths per million vehicle years, 2nd of 129 overall.

Older luxury SUVs

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

• Lexus RX 350 (2017–2020 models, score 93)
• Lexus RX 450h 4WD (2017–2020 models, score 85)
• Lexus NX 300 (2018–2020 models, score 84)
• Mercedes-Benz GLA Class 4WD (2017–2020 models, score 66)
• Cadillac Escalade 4WD (2017–2020 models, score 54)
• Buick Encore (2017–2020 models, score 21)

Other vehicle types

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

* Driver deaths per million registered vehicle years.