Which brands make the best cars? It's an age-old question that's constantly changing as car companies compete with each other to produce the latest and greatest products. But it's a question that we set out to answer with our comprehensive testing of every new vehicle we can get our hands on. We rate vehicle models on a one-to-10 scale—find more about how we determine our ratings here—and now we've averaged all our ratings by brand to determine which ones earn the highest ratings in Car and Driver's testing. We included the top 10 brands in this list. Because we rate vehicles within their relative segments, this ranking of car brands shows which makes produce the most competitive products across the industry. These ratings come from a combination of objective instrumented testing and subjective real-world driving experience. And note that our ratings are constantly changing as we evaluate new products, so these average scores merely represent a snapshot of where these brands stand in today's evaluations. Despite being raised on a steady diet of base-model Hondas and Toyotas—or perhaps because of it—Joey Capparella cultivated an obsession for the automotive industry throughout his childhood in Nashville, Tennessee. He found a way to write about cars for the school newspaper during his college years at Rice University, which eventually led him to move to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for his first professional auto-writing gig at Automobile Magazine. He has been part of the Hearst Autos team since 2016 and now lives in New York City. How Well Would the New Dodge Charger Work on ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’? We’re Camping with the Ultimate Setup, and All I Want Is to Go Home Europe’s DTM Racing Is Beautiful Violence Every Automaker Selling EVs in the U.S. for 2027 A Guide to Every EV for Sale in the U.S. for 2027 Hybrid or Gas? What We'd Buy on 7 Popular Cars The Best Odds: 1987–91 Sterling 825/827 Elana Scherr: Driving High-Priced Dream Cars Ezra Dyer: Let Me Tell You About My (Friend’s) Ferrari F40 1978 Subaru Wagon Through Baja: Only the Strong Survive Editor’s Letter: The Ups and Downs of Owning a Convertible An Automotive Weekend in the Hamptons
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