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The Most Satisfying New Cars, SUVs, and Trucks
Hybrids, sporty cars, and spacious SUVs and sedans top the list, according to Consumer Reports’ surveys Rivian R1T By Jon Linkov Want to be sure you’ll still love your next new car long after the warranty runs out? The easiest way is to check out CR’s owner satisfaction ratings, which are based on responses from CR members on more than…
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Air taxis: the latest on the flying electric cars bringing the Jetsons dream to life
There’s a future where we don’t need roads and regular folks like you and me can jump into a boat-sized electric pod and just fly anywhere on a whim. While we’ve been perfecting the miracle of human flight for more than a century, instant air transportation has long been relegated to science fiction. But in the last decade, many companies…
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Safest New Cars of 2025, According to the IIHS
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety first started releasing crash-test ratings in 1995 and introduced the TSP rating in 2006. To get a TSP rating in 2025, vehicles must earn: • A rating of Acceptable in the updated moderate overlap front crash test, which mimics what happens if a vehicle crosses a center line and 40 percent of its front end…
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Best High-Mileage Used Cars and How to Find Them
Choose a model known for reliability and low repair costs. Any car with more than 100,000 miles is going to be out of warranty and possibly in need of big-ticket maintenance items or repairs. But buying a car with a good reliability record and low maintenance and repair costs can help keep these expenses to a minimum. Keep your options…
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Talking Cars 467: Driving the Volkswagen ID. Buzz
Main theme: This week our panel discusses the 2025 Volkswagen ID. Buzz that we bought for our test program. Our first drive video on the all-electric van we rented from Volkswagen five months ago was so popular that we decided to dedicate this episode to our own test model. We cover the experiences each driver had with the ID. Buzz: taking it…
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Cars, SUVs, and Trucks With the Best Fuel Economy
The lists below highlight the vehicles by category that got the best fuel economy in Consumer Reports’ latest tests. Rather than display every tested vehicle here, we have selected miles-per-gallon cutoffs that are relative to each category. For example, a vehicle that gets 21 mpg wouldn’t be competitive among compact cars, but it would be among the highest in the…
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Used Compact Cars With the Best Fuel Economy
To help steer you to the best choices, we’ve assembled a list of the most fuel-efficient nonhybrid compact cars from the 2020 model year. All got 32 mpg overall or better when we tested them, performed well enough in our tests to be recommended when new, and have average or better reliability according to CR’s Annual Auto Surveys, where we…
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Decoding a Car’s VIN Can Tell You Where It Was Made—and More
You can also look at the first two characters of the VIN. These are called a World Manufacturer Identifier, and they show where a car’s final assembly took place. These are World Manufacturer Identifiers for vehicles sold in the U.S.: 1, 4, 5, 7F through 7Z, and 70: U.S.2: Canada3: Mexico9A through 9E and 93 through 99: BrazilAA through AH:…
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Best American-Made Cars – Consumer Reports
Many of our test cars were built in the country where that brand has its headquarters—a BMW built in Germany or a Hyundai built in South Korea. But even in those cases, the manufacturing process involves multiple countries, with major components (like powertrains) being shipped across borders and oceans. The California-built Tesla Model 3 is an international product. According to…
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Best Plug-In Hybrid Cars and SUVs
If you, like a majority of Americans, tend to drive less than 40 miles a day, you could end up visiting the gas pump just a few times a year. According to a 2024 survey of CR members, 80 percent of those who drive 2022 or newer PHEVs say they typically start their journeys on a full battery so that…
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