The Sportage's side structure is updated in the 2024 model, helping it earn the IIHS award. - IMAGE: Kia

The Sportage's side structure is updated in the 2024 model, helping it earn the IIHS award.

IMAGE: Kia

The 2024 Kia Sportage has earned a top safety award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

The Top Safety Pick+ nod is the nonprofit group’s highest recognition. To get it, a model has to get a “good” rating in several crash tests. Its headlights must also garner acceptable or good ratings as standard in all trims, and a front crash-prevention system with advanced or superior ratings in vehicle-to-pedestrian tests must be available.

Kia updated the side structure of the Sportage with the new model, so it meets all of the higher-tier award’s requirements, IIHS said in a press release.

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