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Honda won the 2025 “Best Car Brand” award for the fourth consecutive year from US News & World Report, receiving high scores for the award’s key attributes of performance, interior quality, safety and reliability for its passenger car lineup that includes Civic, Civic hybrid, Civic Type R, Civic Si, Accord and Accord hybrid.
The US News’ prestigious Best Vehicle Brands Awards recognize industry-wide excellence across four key segments of the automotive market — cars, SUVs, trucks and luxury vehicles – across 38 brands. The winners have the best combination of performance, interior quality, safety and reliability in their categories.
The award-winning 11th-generation Civic is a gateway to the Honda brand and America’s most popular vehicle with the Gen Z, first-time buyers and multicultural customers. Honda Civic is America’s best-selling compact car since 1973. A critical driver of brand loyalty for the Honda brand, the award-winning 11th-generation Accord is America’s most popular midsize vehicle with Millennial, Gen Z, first-time buyers and multicultural customers3.
Hybrid-electric variants for both models, the new Civic hybrid and Accord hybrid, play a key role in the Honda electrification strategy. Hybrid-electric trims powered by the award-winning fourth-generation of the Honda two-motor hybrid-electric powertrain now represent more than 50% of Accord sales, and the new 2025 Civic hybrid models are expected to ultimately represent about 40% of Civic sales. This year over 25% of total Honda brand sales are hybrid-electric vehicles.