2025 Toyota Tundra Secures Top Safety Pick+ Accolade

Good is the highest rating used by the nonprofit organization, which brings us to crash avoidance & mitigation. As it happens, Toyota can make a few improvements to its full-size truck in regard to headlight performance and pedestrian front crash prevention. According to the IIHS, the 2025 Toyota Tundra couldn't avoid a collision with a pedestrian in the parallel adult nighttime scenario at 25 and 37 miles per hour, which is 40 and 60 kilometers per hour in metric talk.

As for headlight performance, Tundras come with two different systems. SR through Limited trims feature LED reflectors with high-beam assist, which couldn't do better than acceptable in certain driving scenarios. As for the projector-style LEDs of the Limited with Premium Package and higher grades, those received a good rating from the IIHS.

Even so, the Arlington-based nonprofit organization determined that both headlight variations create a bit of glare. As for the final area where Toyota can improve its largest pickup truck for the United States market, that would be the rear-seat child seat anchors.

Not only are the tether anchors hard to find, but the lower anchors are located too deep in the seat, making it difficult to properly secure a child seat. Be that as it may, there's no denying the Tundra is one of the safest half-ton pickups available to purchase today.

Speaking of which, the 2025 Toyota Tundra is one of merely two large trucks to be crowned Top Safety Pick+ by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety this year. The other is Rivian's 2024 through 2025 model year R1T, which is a crew cab by default.

Over at Toyota, prospective customers are presented with either a Double Cab or the CrewMax. If you're in the market for a work-oriented Tundra with a large bed, the best pick would be the Double Cab with the 8.1-foot bed. The passenger-oriented CrewMax, by comparison, flaunts 6.5- or 5.5-foot beds.

Compared to the previous generation's naturally aspirated V8, the model year 2022 and newer Tundra is powered by a twin-turbo V6 with 3.4 liters to its name. Its most powerful application is the i-FORCE MAX, with MAX indicating a self-charging hybrid.

437 horsepower and 583 pound-feet (790 Newton-meters) of twist are the peak output numbers, meaning that Toyota's hybrid fullsizer trumps the PowerBoost V6 setup of the Ford F-150. However, the Ford Motor Company's truck is three miles per gallon better in the combined test cycle.