These Are The Best Cars We Drove In 2024

I drove a variety of actually good vehicles this 12 months, from supercars to inexpensive EVs and every little thing in between, and so did a lot of my colleagues. That’s why we’ve rounded up the entire greatest vehicles that we drove in 2024 to your studying pleasure. Despite some robust competitors this 12 months my high two have been simple picks, however I’ve a variety of honorable mentions that would’ve made it on.

Which is your favourite automobile on this listing? What’s the most effective automobile you drove in 2024? What would you like us to assessment in 2025? Let us know within the feedback.

Mercedes-Benz G-Class EV

I imply, this by no means might have been anything. My favourite automobile made even higher by the ability of electrification, the Mercedes-Benz G580 is a singular expertise. I’ve put practically 1,000 miles on electrical G-wagens this 12 months, from the launch occasion in France to Monterey Car Week after which most lately the Austrian Alps, and in each scenario I can’t consider a automobile I’d slightly be in. It’s higher round city and on lengthy freeway journeys than the fuel G-Classes, and off-road it’s utterly untouchable. Most importantly it retains the G-wagen’s spirit, and people door locks.

-Daniel Golson

Porsche 911 GTS T-Hybrid

This was one other simple alternative. Porsche began off its presentation on the facelifted 911 GTS first drive occasion by exhibiting off imply feedback individuals had left on-line concerning the new T-Hybrid powertrain, with the goal to show these haters unsuitable. Prove them unsuitable the hybrid 911 does, as along with being nerdy and attention-grabbing, it’s genuinely enjoyable and thrilling to drive. It’s simply plain great.

-Daniel Golson

Bentley Continental GT Speed

The new Bentley Continental GT Speed made me reevaluate what it meant for a automobile to be enjoyable, quick and opulent. It was so good, actually, that I didn’t even care its value can simply crest $400,000. It’s actually value each penny of that. Sure, it’s unhappy that the twin-turbo W12 is useless, however with a plug-in-hybrid 4.0-liter V8 that pumps out 771 horsepower and 738 lb-ft of torque, I hardly miss it. If you’ve gotten the means, I do recommend choosing one up.

-Andy Kalmowitz

Lucid Air Sapphire

The Lucid Air Sapphire bends actuality to its will, throwing you again in your seat as you rocket from 0 to 60 mph in below two seconds. It’s a form of brutal velocity that can’t actually be conveyed until you expertise it. Still, acceleration isn’t the Sapphire’s social gathering trick. The actual magic is in the best way it goes round corners. What’s much more stunning is that if you happen to simply occurred to have $250,000, you may simply go get one from Lucid. That’s wild.

-Andy Kalmowitz

Caterham Seven 360 R

It won’t technically have been the most effective automobile I drove this 12 months and even essentially the most refined, however essentially the most enjoyable I had behind the wheel in 2024 got here after I acquired to drive a Caterham for the primary time. Specifically, it was a Caterham Seven 360 R that was loaned to me for the day whereas the British sports activities automobile firm tried to show me methods to drift. The drifting outcomes have been blended, but it surely was ridiculously pleasing getting behind the wheel of a automobile that’s just about purpose-built for enjoyable. Acceleration felt quick although it wasn’t, the rear finish was free and playful, and even the rain falling by the outlet the place the roof ought to have been managed to make me chortle.

If you’ve spent too lengthy cooped up in busy cities caught in site visitors and it’s making you lose sight of the enjoyment of driving, then I urge you to check out a automobile like this. Whether it’s a Caterham, a Morgan three-wheeler or one thing much more mad like an Ariel Atom, it’ll certainly be a hoot.

-Owen Bellwood

My 25-Year-Old Porsche 911 Turbo

I had a considerably restricted new automobile take a look at schedule in 2024, and whereas a few of what I drove, particularly the revised Toyota GR Corolla and Audi S5, have been fairly good, in each circumstances I longed to return dwelling and drive my 25-year-old Porsche 911 Turbo. There are nonetheless fairly just a few ending touches that I want to deal with with this automobile in 2025, however it’s already an unbelievable driver’s automobile. Here’s hoping I get to log fairly much more miles behind the wheel subsequent 12 months, together with some observe time.

-Bradley Brownell

Mini Cooper S Convertible

I acquired to pattern the 2025 Mini Cooper S Convertible at BMW Test Fest earlier this 12 months, and I’m selecting it as the most effective automobile I drove for just a few crucial causes. It’s no secret that I’m a Mini fan; I’m head over heels in love with my 2017 Mini Cooper S 4-Door and I’m usually the go-to individual on employees every time Mini information comes alongside. I’m completely biased and predisposed to get pleasure from it, and it’s not at all essentially the most refined, fashionable, spacious, highly effective, or groundbreaking automobile I drove this 12 months, but it surely’s nonetheless the most effective automobile I drove this 12 months.

This “next-gen” mannequin is de facto only a reskinned carryover mannequin that Mini didn’t need to make investments a lot cash in, however I’m nonetheless selecting it as a result of it’s dripping with character, whimsy and enjoyable, and it throws logic to the wind. I like convertibles, however sadly the variety of new convertibles in the marketplace is dwindling. Driving the 2025 Mini Cooper S Convertible, you are feeling its added weight over the three-door, you are feeling the construction and steering wheel shimmy because the agency trip makes issues jiggly, however I put the highest down and I couldn’t cease smiling. There’s hardly any again seat room, and there’s even much less trunk house. It doesn’t make logical sense, but it surely bores a convertible-shaped gap in your coronary heart that solely a Mini can fill.

-Logan Carter

Hyundai Ioniq 5 N

When automakers first began to get into electrical efficiency vehicles, I used to be on the fence, however after dwelling with the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N for per week, I’m a believer and the considerations I had earlier than are all gone. I don’t name many issues excellent, however the 645-horsepower Ioniq 5 N is the right electrical efficiency automobile. It is blisteringly fast, and I imply blistering: According to the automobile’s onboard timer, utilizing launch management I managed to hit 60 mph in 2.9 seconds and pull 1.5 g whereas doing it. Even the comparatively low 221 miles of vary wasn’t an issue given the Ioniq 5 N’s equally quick charging speeds. The solely draw back is the worth. At $67,575 (together with vacation spot) it’s the costliest Hyundai ever bought in America. Hopefully, in just a few years depreciation will kick in and this stuff will flip into a tremendous used purchase.

-Lawrence Hodge

Audi RS3

The Audi RS3, in my view, is the final word sport compact. What makes it so nice is its distinctive engine, a turbocharged 2.5-liter inline-5 that places out a powerful 401 horsepower and 369 lb-ft of torque. With Audi’s signature Quattro all-wheel drive serving to to place energy down, the little sedan that would has efficiency that’ll make anybody not within the know assume twice: 60 mph is available in simply 3.6 seconds, and it’ll do that each one the whereas sounding aggressive as hell from its massive oval exhaust ideas. It’s not fairly excellent, although. With a beginning value of over $63,000, the RS3 is dear for what it’s. It’s additionally fairly tiny inside, and Audi doesn’t provide the RS3 Sportback mannequin in America. Even with these knocks towards it, the RS3 delivers some severe efficiency for such a small sedan.

-Lawrence Hodge

BMW F900GS

I could also be beginning to pull the rose-colored lenses from my ADV goggles, however I can nonetheless get pleasure from a visit from metropolis streets to abandon sand to snowy mountains. That was the precise route BMW deliberate out for the F900GS press trip earlier this 12 months, and it was a deal with to trip that bike by these environs. With a slim physique and lightweight weight, it was the least ADV-feeling ADV I’ve ever ridden, like an enduro with an additional cylinder.

The F900 wasn’t excellent. My daylong trip was marred by its arduous seat and stubby windshield, but it surely was simply such a pleasure to trip. The engine’s acquired ample energy, and it’s truly delivered curiously not like in my older BMW journey twin. There’s a purpose BMW is such a go-to model within the ADV world.

-Amber DaSilva