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    Best American Cars, SUVs, and Trucks

    These are the highest-scoring models from domestic brands in Consumer Reports' ratings

    2024 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray driving
    2024 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray
    Photo: Chevrolet

    Naming the American cars with the best Overall Scores first requires defining what we mean by “American.” This is complicated because some U.S. brands, like Buick and Ford, build many of their vehicles in other countries. Similarly, some foreign brands, such as Honda, Subaru, and Toyota, produce many American-market vehicles here in the U.S. For this roundup, we focused on American-founded and -based companies, including Ford, General Motors, Stellantis, and Tesla.

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    All of the cars featured here are CR Recommended, but not all are built in the U.S.

    Below we spotlight the highest-scoring American-branded vehicle for most of the categories we test. (With the shift in demand toward SUVs, small American cars are nearly extinct. We only included categories where an American-branded car qualified.)

    There are many ways to sort and filter Consumer Reports’ ratings to find the best vehicle in a given category or price range, and you’re invited to explore using our A-to-Z ratings tool.

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