What Makes the 2027 Telluride Such a Safe SUV?

Three-row SUVs like the Telluride are particularly popular with large and growing families, and nothing is more important than the safety of your loved ones. That's why Kia works so hard to develop and engineer incredibly safe vehicles. If you're interested in a Kia Telluride for sale near Edina, then we're excited to explore what makes this such an incredibly safe SUV.

One of the things we love about the auto industry these days is the focus on advanced technology that's designed to help protect you as you drive around Edina each day. Along with great features like secure seatbelts and comprehensive airbag systems, you get innovative driver-assistance technology in the 2027 Telluride. Best of all, much of it is standard, including:

• Forward Collision Warning: This system can detect potential collisions and provide auditory and visual alerts to warn you about a possible frontal crash.
• Forward Collision-Avoidance Assist 1.5: Along with the warning, this system provides additional braking to help you avoid a collision, with support for situations involving pedestrians and cyclists, as well as when making left-hand turns.
• Blind-Spot Collision Warning: This system can detect objects in the Telluride's blind spot and provide you with an alert to help prevent you from merging into someone.
• Rear Cross-Traffic Collision-Avoidance Assist: You get both a warning about vehicles approaching from the sides while you're backing up, as well as automatic braking to help decrease the risk of a collision.
• Driver Attention Warning: This system analyzes your driving for warning signs of inattention or fatigue. If you seem particularly tired, an alert will recommend that you safely take a break.
• Highway Driving Assist: This system helps maintain a set speed and distance from the vehicle ahead of you on the highway, keeping your Telluride centered in its lane.
• Intelligent Speed Limit Assist: Using this system, the Telluride can recognize the speed limit of the road you're on and warn you if you go over the limit. It can also adjust your Smart Cruise Control speed automatically based on speed limit changes as you drive.
• Navigation-Based Smart Cruise Control: Speaking of which, you get a cruise control system that lets you set a speed, it adjusts it automatically for you as needed, and can even reduce speed automatically before entering a curve. All of this makes highway driving less tiring.
• Lane Departure Warning: This system detects when you are about to drift out of your lane and warns you to help you avoid swerving into other lanes.
• Lane Keeping Assist: If a lane departure is detected without the turn signal on, then this system can automatically prevent you from departing your lane.
• Park Distance Warning: This system provides warnings when you are moving at low speeds about nearby objects. Both front and rear Park Distance Warning are standard.
• Safe Exit Assist: One of our favorite features that's easy to overlook, this system provides an audible warning if a rear passenger attempts to exit the vehicle while an approaching vehicle is detected, keeping everyone safer.

With these systems supporting your safe driving habits, it's easier to react to a dangerous situation and come out the other side in one piece. We should note, however, that even the best technology can't replace safe, careful driving. So be sure to always practice defensive driving habits while getting around Edina each day.

As much as we love the standard systems, there are more great features available on higher trim levels of the 2027 Telluride. These options take things further to ensure that you and your family are safe as you get around Edina, but they're not strictly essential. Still, they're worth considering as you shop for your next family SUV.

• Forward Collision-Avoidance Assist 2: This provides additional collision-avoidance functionality for oncoming vehicles and for lane changes.
• Blind-Spot Collision-Avoidance Assist: Enhancing the standard warning, this system can automatically assist steering or braking to help you avoid a vehicle in your blind spot.
• Highway Driving Assist 2: This adds lane-change support to the Highway Driving Assist system, so you can activate the turn signal, and the Telluride can safely change lanes for you.
• Park Distance Warning - Side: Along with the standard front and rear Park Distance Warning, this adds a warning when an object is detected alongside your vehicle.
• Rear Parking Collision-Avoidance Assist: Beyond warnings, this system will automatically assist with emergency braking to help you avoid a collision when backing up.
• Remote Smart Parking Assist: An incredibly fun feature, this system lets you use the key fob to park the Telluride for you, even when you're outside your vehicle.
• 360-degree Surround View Monitor: This system uses four wide-view cameras to create a virtual look around your vehicle, giving you enhanced visibility when you're driving at low speeds or parking.

All of these features add onto what you already get, creating an even safer version of the Telluride. You can see why we say they're not essential, since things like automatic parking are typically seen on luxury cars. But with these enhanced systems, you get a family SUV that's even safer and ready to protect you in a wide range of situations.

There's a lot more to a safe vehicle than just the latest driver-assistance technology. Great SUVs should be designed and engineered from the very start to help protect everyone inside them (and others on the road). Kia's engineers are among the finest out there, and they focus on making incredibly safe vehicles like the beautifully redesigned 2027 Telluride.
 
For starters, you've got steel unibody construction that feels great to drive and helps protect you if things get out of hand. The independent MacPherson strut front suspension and independent rear suspension help keep you comfortable while driving and help you maintain control on rough or uneven roads around Edina.
 
You get an impressive 2.5L turbocharged engine that delivers 274 hp and 311 lb-ft of torque, making the Telluride quite fun to drive. All-wheel drive is available with a Terrain Mode that lets you choose Snow or Mud & Sand settings to keep you in control in various conditions. Plus, you get disc brakes on all four wheels, with larger brakes up front to help you stop with precision.

Although it might not be as obvious a safety feature as those we've looked at so far, we should also mention that the 2027 Telluride comes with Kia's industry-leading 10-year/100,000-mile powertrain warranty and a five-year/60,000-mile vehicle warranty. This gives you tremendous peace of mind as you drive and shows how much Kia believes in the quality of its vehicles.
 
Finally, you might've noticed that we didn't mention anything about safety ratings for the Telluride from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) or Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). At this time, neither group has released ratings for this model.
 
That being said, the NHTSA gave the 2025 Telluride a Five-Star Overall Safety Rating, and the IIHS named the 2025 model a Top Safety Pick+. So we look forward to seeing how they evaluate and rate the all-new 2027 Telluride.

Ultimately, you can see that Kia has gone above and beyond to ensure that the 2027 Telluride is an incredibly safe three-row SUV. This is a vehicle you'll look forward to driving each day and feel confident in every time you hit the road. Come visit us at Lupient Kia Brooklyn Park if you're ready to see this remarkable SUV for yourself.