Most Satisfying Cars by Age Group
The vehicles that make millennials, baby boomers, and others happy
While every generation—millennials, Gen Xers, baby boomers, the Silent Generation—is unique, there’s a good deal of overlap when it comes to the cars that satisfy their owners the most.
Overall, we’ve found that the new vehicles inspiring the strongest loyalty are some sort of combination of being fun to drive, being reliable, delivering great fuel economy or having the ability to be driven solely on electricity, or providing a high-tech, luxurious driving environment. Those that perform poorly in some or all of those areas sit at the bottom.
In general, the vehicles that perform well in CR tests are often ones that also give owners higher satisfaction.
How do we know this? We ask CR members whether they would buy the same car again. That decision is the basis of our owner satisfaction score. We also look at how owners rate their cars on satisfaction in five categories: driving experience, comfort, value, styling, and audio controls. We have data on more than 300,000 vehicles from CR’s owner satisfaction surveys to help you choose.
