Kelley Blue Book Best Buy Awards of 2024
By Jason Allan 12/04/2023 9:00pm
The best cars for the most people in more than a dozen popular segments
Are you a savvy shopper who also likes smart shortcuts? You’ve come to the right place. Our 10th annual Kelley Blue Book Best Buy Awards highlight the standout cars, trucks, and SUVs we recommend for the most shoppers across a variety of segments.
Every year, we put thousands of hours into driving and evaluating hundreds of cars and determining our comprehensive Best Cars rankings. These Best Buy Awards are the purest distillations of those efforts. Our awards span a wide range of vehicle sizes and prices, and we give extra weight to financial considerations like resale value and reliability. Our goal, as always, is to make it easy for you to shop like an expert.
Best New Model
Best New Model
2024 Toyota Prius
The ultra-efficient Toyota Prius has head-turning style and newfound power. It nets 57 mpg combined and is engaging to drive.
Best in Class
Subcompact SUV
2024 Hyundai Kona
Bigger, more refined, and a better value than ever before, the Hyundai Kona offers a stunning amount of tech, safety, and convenience features for its low starting price.
Best Compact SUV
2024 Honda CR-V
The CR-V combines exceptional practicality, satisfying driving dynamics, and a proven reputation for reliability and resale value.
Best 3-Row Midsize SUV
2024 Kia Telluride
The Kia Telluride has a full roster of standard tech, safety, and convenience features, a terrific starting price, and a spacious, upscale interior.
Best Full-Size SUV
2024 Ford Expedition
The 2024 Ford Expedition combines incredible capability with refinement, comfort, and useful tech.
Best 3-Row EV
2024 Kia EV9
The Kia EV9 is a roomy, practical 3-row midsize SUV that’s fun to drive, and also has a range of up to 304 miles.
Best Electric Vehicle
2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5
The 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5 blends technology, practicality, and value in an electric vehicle that feels at once futuristic yet approachable.
Best Compact Car
2024 Honda Civic
Honda has perfected the compact car formula, with the features, pricing, and dependability small car buyers demand. And the Honda Civic is a delight to drive.
Best Midsize Car
2024 Honda Accord
Comfortable, refined, and spacious, the Honda Accord backs up its fun driving manners with excellent practicality, outstanding resale values, and a wide variety of trim levels, including hybrids.
Best Minivan
2024 Toyota Sienna
With a roomy, family-friendly interior, excellent standard safety features, known reliability, and hybrid power that saves on fuel costs, the Toyota Sienna is a terrific choice for families.
Best Compact Truck
2024 Ford Maverick
The 2024 Ford Maverick is everything you want in a compact pickup truck: It can carry 1,500 pounds of payload, tow up to 4,000 pounds, is fuel-efficient, and easy to maneuver and park around town.
Best Midsize Truck
2024 Toyota Tacoma
The all-new Toyota Tacoma blends refinement, comfort, and excellent road manners with tough-truck capability and incredible power, and keeps that familiar Toyota feel.
Best Full-Size Truck
2024 Ford F-150
Whether you need a basic work truck, a luxurious people mover, a capable off-roader, or something in between, there’s a Ford F-150 for the job. The 2024 Ford F-150 is loaded with technology that helps when towing or off-roading, too.
Best Electric Truck
2024 Ford F-150 Lightning
The Ford F-150 Lightning, the all-electric version of the Ford F-Series, is a great buy for its reasonable pricing, impressive range, and advanced tech features.