2021 Ford F-150 Improves Headlights, Gets IIHS Top Safety Pick Award

New headlight options on higher trim levels of the 2021 F-150 promoted the truck to a Top Safety Pick, making it one of two large pickups receiving the award.

Automakers covet the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s Top Safety Pick awards, plastering them across advertisements and name-dropping them in TV spots to entice buyers into their latest offerings. While Ford probably doesn’t need any help selling the F-150 pickup truck—already the bestselling vehicle in the United States by a healthy margin—the Blue Oval now has another tool to promote its popular truck, with the IIHS announcing that the 2021 F-150 crew-cab and extended-cab models have received a Top Safety Pick award.

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