- In this report
- Overview
- Ownership costs
- Best & worst values
- Best new vehicles under $25,000
- Highest scoring American vehicles
- Best & worst fuel economy
- Best city/highway mpg
- Best & worst acceleration
- Best & worst in safety performance
- Best & worst visibility
- Highs & lows of testing
- Most fun to drive
- Best for comfort
- Best off-road
- Best & worst three-row vehicles
- Hits & misses in redesigns
- Also in This Issue
This article was featured in the April 2012 issue of Consumer Reports Magazine.
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- Top Picks 2012
- Who makes the best cars?
- Most reliable used cars
- New car preview
- Vehicle-to-vehicle communication
- Tires
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Most fun to drive
Fun to drive is a subjective measure—an elusive quality that can mean different things to different people. From our experience, a car can have a very powerful engine and accelerate quickly, but without handling agility, it's not much fun. For us, fun is a combination of factors such as handling response, sound, and the nature of the power delivery that lead to grin-inducing satisfaction. To come up with our list of the most fun cars to drive, we first took a slice according to our scores for handling, steering feel, and body control. Then we looked at acceleration, but found most cars today have plenty of power. Finally, we took a secret ballot to give our testers a chance to capture those elusive subjective qualities, including sounds.
