Consumer Reports reveals best car brands of 2025

Consumer Reports rated cars from 32 brands on reliability, owner satisfaction, safety, and road-test scores.

Every year, Consumer Reports publishes a car brand report card. We rank automakers based on their vehicles’ average Overall Score—a combination of our road-test scores, safety ratings, and predicted reliability and owner satisfaction data. This provides a definitive number to help consumers see which brands shine and which might be best avoided.

We also present separate ratings specifically for each brand’s average road-test, reliability, and owner satisfaction scores for new models. And we rank brands based on their used-car reliability.