Honda has won U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 “Best Car Brand” award for the fourth year in a row, winning the award’s key rankings for performance, interior quality, safety and reliability for its passenger car models, including Civic and Civic. Achieved a high score in the attribute. Hybrid, Civic Type R, Civic Si, Accord, Accord Hybrid.
The uniquely successful and award-winning 11th generation Civic is the gateway to the Honda brand and America’s most popular vehicle for Gen Z, first-time buyers, and multicultural customers1. The Honda Civic has been America’s best-selling compact car since 19732. A key driver of brand loyalty for the Honda brand, the award-winning 11th generation Accord is America’s most popular midsize car with millennials, Gen Z, first-time buyers, and multicultural customers.3
Both hybrid-electric models, the new Civic Hybrid and Accord Hybrid, play a key role in Honda’s electrification strategy. Hybrid-electric trims, powered by the fourth generation of Honda’s award-winning two-motor hybrid-electric powertrain, now account for more than 50% of Accord sales, and the new 2025 Civic Hybrid model will eventually replace the Civic’s approx. Sales are expected to account for 40%. This year, more than 25% of the Honda brand’s total sales are hybrid electric vehicles.
After evaluating 38 brands, U.S. News’ prestigious Best Vehicle Brands Awards recognize industry-wide excellence across four major segments of the auto market: cars, SUVs, trucks, and luxury vehicles, and excite cars. We recognize the automakers with the most desirable and important brand characteristics that make them attractive. Purchaser. Winners have the best combination of performance, interior quality, safety and reliability within their category.
To determine the winners, U.S. News Best Cars averaged the overall scores of all products for a particular brand in each award class. Vehicle scores are derived from the US News Best Cars rankings, which consider a variety of data points such as safety ratings and reliability data, as well as the consensus opinion of the automotive press. The brand with the highest average score was named the winner for that particular category.
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About Honda
Honda offers a full line of clean, safe, fun and connected vehicles through more than 1,000 independent Honda dealers in the United States. In addition to the Civic and Accord, Honda’s award-winning lineup includes the HR-V, CR-V, Passport, Prologue and Pilot sport utility vehicles, Ridgeline pickup and Odyssey minivan. Honda’s electric vehicle lineup will account for more than a quarter of total sales in 2024, and includes the all-electric Prologue SUV, hybrid electric vehicles Accord, CR-V and Civic, and fuel cell electric vehicle CR-V e. :FCEV is included.
Honda has been producing cars in America for more than 40 years and currently operates 18 major manufacturing facilities in North America. By 2023, more than 99% of Honda vehicles sold in the United States will be manufactured in North America, and approximately two-thirds will be manufactured in the United States, using parts sourced domestically and internationally.
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Based on Strategic Vision’s 2021-2024 New Car Experience Study. Based on total sales data from WardsAuto and Sales Flash 1973-2024CYTD October. Based on Strategic Vision’s 2023-2024 New Car Experience Study.
