Toyota Camry

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is tightening its crash-test requirements for its coveted Top Safety Pick and Top Safety Pick+ awards, resulting in fewer winners for 2025.

Read on to see which vehicles and brands rose to the top of J.D. Power’s 2025 U.S. Vehicle Dependability Study in terms of reliability.

The auto-industry analysts at J.D. Power say vehicles built during the COVID-19 pandemic are more problematic than those manufactured any year since 2009.

Wheel warming has gone mainstream, with the feature standard or optional not just on luxury vehicles, but on an increasing number of models with sticker prices of $40,000 or less.

Of 30 vehicles subject to the new test in the agency’s latest front crash evaluation, 22 rated good or acceptable.

Toyota is recalling approximately 41,000 examples of its Camry sedan, as well as NX and RX SUVs from its luxury arm Lexus, for a damaged seat belt.

For our Best Car of the Year award, our watchwords are quality, innovation and value.

An increasing number of vehicles with sticker prices of $40,000 or less, some much less, offer heated mirrors.

Hybrids are some of the hottest selling cars at the moment, and fortunately, a boom in hybrid sales means that more of them are trickling down into the used market.

The growing demand for hybrids has resulted in an explosion of different models to choose from, several with a list price under $30,000.