2026 Crown Signia Scores Marginal With IIHS, Missing the Award List

The 2026 Toyota Crown Signia earned a Marginal rating in the IIHS’s updated moderate overlap front crash test, which is enough on its own to keep it from winning a Top Safety Pick award.

Nearly everything else about the Crown Signia’s results meets the award standard. It rated Good in the small overlap front and updated side tests, its standard LED headlights rated Good, and its automatic emergency braking rated Good for both vehicle and pedestrian crashes. The IIHS requires a Good moderate overlap rating for either of its awards, so the back seat is the only thing holding the Toyota back.

According to the IIHS ratings page, the 2026 Crown Signia XLE it tested had a Good structure and Good scores for every driver injury measure and for driver restraints. The problem was the rear passenger dummy, which sits behind the driver and represents a small woman or a child. Its restraints and dummy kinematics rated Marginal, and its chest injury measure rated Acceptable, while its head, neck and thigh measures rated Good. The IIHS hasn’t published a written explanation of the result.

autoevolution, which reviewed the IIHS crash test video, pointed to the rear lap belt. The outlet wrote that the belt tends to slide up from the pelvis onto the abdomen under heavy deceleration, a movement known as submarining that raises the risk of injury for the rear passenger.

The other results were mostly strong. In the small overlap tests, the driver side rated Good across the board, and the passenger side earned a Good rating despite an Acceptable score for passenger restraints and kinematics because the dummy’s head began to move into the gap between the frontal and side curtain airbags. The updated side test produced a Good rating despite Acceptable scores for the structure and the driver’s pelvis. The automatic braking system avoided collisions in every car and motorcycle test at 31, 37 and 43 mph, and the Crown Signia also earned Good ratings for its seat belt reminders and for LATCH ease of use.

The Crown Signia is a two-row hybrid crossover that Toyota builds at its Tsutsumi Plant in Japan on the same platform as the Crown sedan. For 2026 it comes in XLE and Limited trims with a 240-horsepower hybrid and standard all-wheel drive, with prices starting at $44,390 and $48,790, respectively, before a $1,450 destination fee, according to Toyota’s 2026 release.

The Toyota Report Take

The Crown Signia does nearly everything right in the IIHS program, which makes this miss more frustrating. A back-seat result like this one usually comes down to belts and restraints rather than the body structure, and Toyota should treat it as a priority fix, because a $45,000 family crossover should protect a child in the back seat as well as it protects the adults up front.