Is your teen getting ready to get on the road?
U.S. News & World Report released its annual report for 2025 Best Cars for Teens awards that includes new and used vehicles.
The awards recognize cars that come highly recommended by critics and score well in factors including. performance, predicted reliability, crash ratings and safety feature availability.
Here are the findings:
Hyundai takes home the most awards this year across both the new car and used car categories, with six wins overall.
The Civic Hybrid is a first-time Best Car for Teens winner.
The Hyundai Tucson is a Best SUV for Teens for the fourth year in a row.
The Toyota Camry wins a Best Car for Teens award for the third year running and seventh time overall.
2025 Best Used Cars for Teens
The winners of the used cars range from small cars to SUVs.
- 2022 Hyundai Tucson Hybrid in the Small SUVs category
- 2022 Hyundai Elantra Hybrid in the Small Cars category.
- 2022 Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid in the midsize SUVs category
- 2021 Subaru Legacy in the midsize cars category
2025 Best New Cars for Teens
Winners for the Best New Car for Teens, must have the best combination of predicted reliability ratings, crash test scores, available advanced driver-assistance features and top critics’ recommendations in its price category, say US News.
2025 Best New Car
- Best Car for Teens $20k to $25k; 2025 Toyota Corolla Hybrid
- Best Car for Teens $25k to $30k; 2025 Hyundai Elantra
- Best Car for Teens $30k to $35k; 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid
- Best Car for Teens $35k to $40k; 2025 Toyota Camry
2025 Best New SUV
- Best SUV for Teens $20k to $25k; 2025 Kia Soul
- Best SUV for Teens $25k to $30k; 2025 Hyundai Tucson
- Best SUV for Teens $30k to $35k; 2025 Hyundai Tucson Hybrid
- Best SUV for Teens $35k to $40k; 2025 Subaru Forester