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2025 Lexus Rc Safety Rating

Large luxury cars 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 8 results
No award
IIHS award
No current award
21
Class driver death rate
per million vehicle-years; all vehicles 38

IIHS crash-test results

Small Overlap Front Good
Latch Ease Of Use Good
Detailed results by test (23 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

Child seat anchors

Overall evaluation Good
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How the score is built

Primary IIHS tests (55%)
79.0
1/4 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%)
Not reported
IIHS pedestrian AEB result: not yet published
Class context (10%)
73.9
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 19 published injury measures across the three crash tests. Orders vehicles with equal scores; carries no weight in the score.

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Real-world context

MeasureResultWhat it covers
Class driver death rate21 per million registered vehicle-yearsLarge luxury cars as a class, adjusted for driver age and sex (Farmer, 2023); all vehicles average 38. Class context only.

Our analysis

The 2025 Lexus Rc belongs to the Large luxury cars 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 Lexus Rc 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 2 IIHS rating categories reported, the Lexus Rc earned 2 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 Lexus or any manufacturer. Read the full methodology or learn more about us.

Safety recalls for the 2025 Lexus Rc

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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