Is the 2025 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid a safe car?

IIHS has published 3 of the 4 primary tests and 0 of the 4 occupant-protection details for the 2025 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid, 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 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid an IIHS Top Safety Pick?

No. The 2025 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid 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.

2025 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid Safety Rating

Name: 2025 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid
Brand: Mitsubishi

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

Provisional record

This is the 2025 record, kept for reference. The current listing is the 2026 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid. 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

42

Class driver death rate

per million vehicle-years; all vehicles 38

IIHS crash-test results

Front Crash Prevention: PedestrianPoor

Front Crash Prevention: Vehicle-to-VehicleGood

Small Overlap Front Good

Side: Updated Test Good

Headlights Good

Detailed results by test (38 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 Acceptable

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 Acceptable

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 Acceptable

Driver injury measures

Head/neck Good

Torso Acceptable

Pelvis Acceptable

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 2023-26 models Good

Front crash prevention: vehicle-to-vehicle 2.0

Overall evaluation Poor

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How the score is built

Primary IIHS tests (55%)

91.0

3/4 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%)

0.0

IIHS pedestrian AEB result: Poor · vehicle-to-vehicle: Good (shown, not scored)

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)

95.69

Mean of 29 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 →

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.

Other model years of the Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid

Model year	Status	IIHS award	Primary tests reported	Score
2026 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid	Current listing	—	3/4	Not ranked

Each model year keeps its own record. Ratings from one year are never copied to another unless IIHS states the test applies.

Our analysis

The 2025 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid 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 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid 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 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid 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 Mitsubishi or any manufacturer. Read the full methodology or learn more about us.

Safety recalls for the 2025 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid

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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