Best & worst cars review, most fun to drive

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 overlooked cars; Most fun to drive; Best for comfort; Best off-road; Best & worst three-row vehicles

This article was featured in the April 2011 issue of Consumer Reports Magazine.

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Last reviewed: October 2011

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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 10 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. Here are the Top 10, in rank order, among the cars we've recently tested:

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