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2025 Audi Q8 Sportback e-tron Safety Rating

Large luxury SUVs Β· Historical model-year record Β· 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 5 results
No award
IIHS award
No current award
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NHTSA overall
Reference only, not scored
17
Class driver death rate
per million vehicle-years; all vehicles 38

IIHS crash-test results

Front Crash Prevention: PedestrianPoor
Front Crash Prevention: Vehicle-to-VehicleAcceptable
Small Overlap Front Good
Side: Updated Test Good
Headlights (Varies By Trim/option) Good
Detailed results by test (42 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

Side: updated test

Overall evaluation Good
Structure and safety cage Good
Driver injury measures
Head/neck Good
Torso Good
Pelvis Good
Driver head protection Good
Rear passenger injury measures
Head/neck Good
Torso Good
Pelvis Good
Rear passenger head protection Good

Headlights

Overall rating Good
Distance at which headlights provide at least 5 lux illumination:
Overall ratingApplies to 2024-25 models Good
Overall rating Acceptable
Distance at which headlights provide at least 5 lux illumination:
Overall ratingApplies to 2024-25 models Acceptable

Front crash prevention: vehicle-to-vehicle 2.0

Overall evaluation Poor

Front crash prevention: pedestrian

Overall evaluation Acceptable
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How the score is built

Primary IIHS tests (55%)
91.0
3/4 reported Β· small overlap, updated moderate overlap, updated side, headlights
Occupant-protection details (25%)
0.0
0/4 reported Β· rear restraints, rear head, safety cage, front restraints
Pedestrian front crash prevention (10%)
0.0
IIHS pedestrian AEB result: Poor Β· vehicle-to-vehicle: Acceptable (shown, not scored)
Class context (10%)
78.3
Damped class-level driver death-rate term; award status is shown above but carries no weight
Injury-measure average (tiebreak only)
100.0
Mean of 29 published injury measures across the three crash tests. Orders vehicles with equal scores; carries no weight in the score.

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NHTSA 5-star rating

2025 Audi Q8 Sportback e-tron SUV AWD

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

Real-world context

MeasureResultWhat it covers
Class driver death rate17 per million registered vehicle-yearsLarge luxury SUVs as a class, adjusted for driver age and sex (Farmer, 2023); all vehicles average 38. Class context only.

Our analysis

The 2025 Audi Q8 Sportback e-tron belongs to the Large luxury SUVs class. This class has a below-average driver death rate compared with 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 Q8 Sportback e-tron 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 3 IIHS rating categories reported, the Audi Q8 Sportback e-tron earned 3 Good ratings. Check the occupant-protection details above as well; a Good headline result can hide a weaker rear-seat subscore.

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 Q8 Sportback e-tron

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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