Honda has become the first company on earth to earn a perfect five-star rating under the FIA’s newly expanded Road Safety Index, the toughest scoring framework the governing body of world motorsport has ever applied to an automaker’s safety practices. The achievement was announced on September 8, 2026, during Formula One’s Italian Grand Prix weekend at Monza, according to the FIA.

Key Points

• Honda is the first organization worldwide to reach the FIA Road Safety Index’s new maximum five-star tier, per the FIA’s official announcement.
• The rating covers Honda’s products and services category, evaluated across 17 countries that account for more than 90% of its global motorcycle and automobile sales, according to Honda’s own newsroom.
• Honda previously became the first automaker to reach the Index’s three-star level, back in February 2025, per Honda’s release.
• The FIA expanded the Index from a three-star to a five-star scale in 2025, adding tougher assessment modules that didn’t exist before.

What the New Tier Actually Measures

The original three-star version of the FIA Road Safety Index scored companies on Commitment and Footprint — essentially whether an automaker had a stated safety policy and tracked its impact. The four- and five-star levels layer on three additional modules: Planning, which requires transparent and data-backed action plans; Safety Performance Monitoring, which tracks real-world outcomes across a company’s full value chain; and Safety Culture Management, which checks whether safety priorities extend to suppliers and partners rather than stopping at a company’s own factory gates, according to the FIA.

FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem said in the organization’s statement that “road safety remains one of the world’s most urgent challenges, and no single organisation or sector can address it alone,” framing Honda’s score as evidence that a corporate safety push can be measured with the same rigor as a carbon footprint, per the FIA.

Honda’s Stated Targets

Honda has publicly committed to cutting global traffic collision fatalities involving its vehicles and motorcycles by 50% by 2030, measured per 10,000 units sold against a 2020 baseline, and to reaching zero traffic fatalities involving Honda products by 2050, according to Honda’s global newsroom. Honda executive Mikihito Kojima said the company was “deeply honored” that its safety initiatives received the five-star rating, calling it “the highest recognition in the FIA Road Safety Index,” per Honda’s own statement.

The recognition lands as automakers face growing scrutiny over software-driven safety systems and global recall volumes, giving Honda a data point tied to corporate practices rather than any single vehicle’s crash-test score. Additional coverage of the announcement was provided by Automotive World, an industry trade publication that covers global manufacturer news.