Sure you want your teens to be safe all the time. But do you take some time to ask them what they want from their cars. Go back to the time when you’re also a teen. You want style, don’t you? And that’s exactly what they want too.

A newly licensed teen wants a comfy stylish car. Some want a strong performance. But, as parents, you have to take note that young drivers have higher accident rates. Therefore, safety has to come first. Style follows.

But do you know the cars that have safety and style as main ingredients?  U.S. News has devised a list of safe cars for teens…

Government crash-test scores. We like cars that earn either 4 or 5 stars, out of 5, in each of the four categories of the government tests. A perfect score would be 20. We consider a "top" combined score to be 16 or higher, with nothing lower than 4 in any single category.

Rollover resistance. The government also calculates the likelihood that a car will roll over if the driver loses control. This is just as important as crash-test scores, since many wrecks are single-vehicle accidents that can be perfectly survivable if the car stays upright - and deadly if it flips over. Road-hugging sports cars tend to have the highest rollover resistance, since their center of gravity is low. (Still, we discourage buying your kid a Porsche.) Tall SUVs usually score lower. Safety features like stability control can help. We consider 4 or 5 stars to be a "top" rollover score.

Mass. A car’s size and weight matter too. While crash test scores are a good safety indicator, the government rates cars only within their class - which means a compact car with a 5-star rating scores high compared with other compacts, but not necessarily compared with pickups or SUVs. In the real world, of course, collisions occur between every kind of car, and as a general rule, bigger, heavier cars protect their occupants better. So we determined whether the cars on our list have above- or below-average weight, compared with all cars.

U.S. News Top Picks:
1.    MINI Cooper hatchback $18,700; 28 mpg
2.    Toyota Tacoma pickup $14,280; 20 mpg             
3.    Toyota Corolla sedan $14,405; 28 mpg            
4.    Dodge Charger sedan $22,350; 18 mpg            
5.    Chrysler 300 sedan $25,270; 18 mpg        
6.    Honda Fit hatchback $13,950; 28 mpg             
7.    Scion xD hatchback $15,170; 27 mpg
8.    Kia Spectra5 hatchback $16,620; 23 mpg          
9.    Chevrolet Equinox SUV $23,355; 17 mpg        
10.   Honda Civic coupe/sedan/hybrid $14,810; 26 mpg