Is the 2025 Audi Q3 a safe car?

IIHS has published 4 of the 4 primary tests and 0 of the 4 occupant-protection details for the 2025 Audi Q3, so it is not yet in the ranked list. Missing results are never treated as passing or failing; the reported results are on this page.

Is the 2025 Audi Q3 an IIHS Top Safety Pick?

No. The 2025 Audi Q3 does not hold an IIHS Top Safety Pick award for the 2025 model year, which can reflect a result below Good in a qualifying test or tests that IIHS has not yet completed.

What is the 2025 Audi Q3 NHTSA rating?

NHTSA gives the 2025 Audi Q3 SUV AWD an overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars (frontal 4, side 5, rollover 4). NHTSA stars are shown for reference and are not part of our score.

2025 Audi Q3 Safety Rating

Name: 2025 Audi Q3
Brand: Audi

Small SUVs · Historical model-year record · IIHS data updated 2026-09-04

Provisional record

This is the 2025 record, kept for reference. IIHS no longer lists a newer model year for this nameplate. The 2025 results below are the exact ratings IIHS published for this model year.

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Safety score / 100

Awaiting 4 results

No award

IIHS award

No current award

★★★★★

NHTSA overall

Reference only, not scored

42

Class driver death rate

per million vehicle-years; all vehicles 38

IIHS crash-test results

Front Crash Prevention: PedestrianGood

Small Overlap Front Good

Moderate Overlap Front: Updated Test Marginal

Side: Updated Test Acceptable

Headlights Good

Seat Belt Reminders Poor

Latch Ease Of Use Good

Detailed results by test (54 entries)

IIHS publishes these under the test they belong to, so the same label can appear more than once. Rear restraints and kinematics, rear head protection, structure and safety cage, and front restraints are the four that count toward the score (25%).

Small overlap front

Overall driver-side evaluation Good

Structure and safety cage Good

Driver injury measures

Head/neck Good

Chest Good

Hip/thigh Good

Lower leg/foot Good

Driver restraints and dummy kinematics Good

Overall passenger-side evaluation Good

Structure and safety cage Good

Passenger injury measures

Head/neck Good

Chest Good

Hip/thigh Good

Lower leg/foot Good

Passenger restraints and dummy kinematics Good

Driver injury measures

Head/neck Good

Chest Good

Hip/thigh Good

Lower leg/foot Good

Driver restraints and dummy kinematics Good

Moderate overlap front: updated test

Overall evaluation Marginal

Structure and safety cage Good

Driver injury measures

Head/neck Good

Chest Good

Thigh/hip Good

Leg/foot Good

Driver restraints and dummy kinematics Good

Rear passenger injury measures

Head/neck Acceptable

Chest Good

Thigh Good

Rear passenger restraints and dummy kinematics Marginal

Side: updated test

Overall evaluation Acceptable

Structure and safety cage Acceptable

Driver injury measures

Head/neck Good

Torso Acceptable

Pelvis Poor

Driver head protection Good

Rear passenger injury measures

Head/neck Good

Torso Acceptable

Pelvis Acceptable

Rear passenger head protection Good

Whiplash prevention

Overall evaluation Good

Headlights

Overall rating Good

Distance at which headlights provide at least 5 lux illumination:

Overall ratingApplies to 2019-25 models Good

Front crash prevention: pedestrian

Overall evaluation Marginal

Seat belt reminders

Overall evaluation Poor

Child seat anchors

Overall evaluation Good

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How the score is built

Primary IIHS tests (55%)

70.0

4/4 reported · small overlap, updated moderate overlap, updated side, headlights

Occupant-protection details (25%)

0.0

0/4 reported · rear restraints, rear head, safety cage, front restraints

Pedestrian front crash prevention (10%)

100.0

IIHS pedestrian AEB result: Good

Class context (10%)

55.8

Damped class-level driver death-rate term; award status is shown above but carries no weight

Injury-measure average (tiebreak only)

90.0

Mean of 40 published injury measures across the three crash tests. Orders vehicles with equal scores; carries no weight in the score.

Full formula, weights, and missing-data rules →

NHTSA 5-star rating

2025 Audi Q3 SUV AWD

Overall★★★★★

Frontal crash★★★★☆

Side crash★★★★★

Rollover★★★★☆ 16.4% risk

NHTSA stars are shown for reference and carry no weight in the score. NHTSA source. Why the two programs disagree →

Real-world context

Measure	Result	What it covers
Class driver death rate	42 per million registered vehicle-years	Small SUVs as a class, adjusted for driver age and sex (Farmer, 2023); all vehicles average 38. Class context only.

Our analysis

The 2025 Audi Q3 belongs to the Small SUVs class. This class has a driver death rate near the national average of 38 deaths per million registered vehicle-years. The class figure is adjusted for driver age and sex, which removes a large part of the selection effect in raw death rates. It is still a class average, not a measurement of this model.

The Audi Q3 has no IIHS Top Safety Pick award for 2025. That can mean a result below the award threshold in one test, or tests IIHS has not completed. Absence of an award is not evidence that the vehicle is unsafe.

Across the 6 IIHS rating categories reported, the Audi Q3 earned 3 Good ratings. Results below Good deserve attention, especially the updated frontal and side tests that IIHS toughened in 2022 and 2023. Our updated crash test analysis explains what changed.

This analysis is produced independently; we have no affiliation with Audi or any manufacturer. Read the full methodology or learn more about us.

Safety recalls for the 2025 Audi Q3

NHTSA does not yet list this model year in its recall database. That usually means the vehicle is too new to appear, not that it has been cleared.

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