In the market for a new car or SUV?

NBC's Rory O'Neill reports on the top cars and SUV's on the market. Hyundai takes the prize at #1

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six forty seven, over to the Legacy Retirement Group dot
com phone line. Find Rory O'Neil, NBC News Radio in
the market for a new car. You got the list
of some of the best new cars on the dealer's
lot today.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
What do we have, Rory, Yeah, good morning. The new
report from US News. It looks forward to twenty twenty
six and the best brands that are out there. And
this goes specifically by brand rather than an actual model
of car. So if you're looking for a car, they say,
Honda is the way to go with the vehicles like
the Civic. They just love the Civic over there. The

(00:32):
best suv brand they say, it's Hyundai. Again, it's Hondai's
fifth best suv brand win in the last six years,
so they've been on a roll, so to speak. Best
truck they say, is the Dodge Ram. The best luxury brand.
I know this is where you do your shopping. Yes,
for the first time, it's the Genesis. Oh, also a

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Hyundai product, by the way, And for the first time
they're doing EV so they have the best EV brand
they say, that's Ford and the best luxury EV is.
Something I had to web search for is Lucid.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, I would need to look at that as well.
That's not necessarily on my rate. Now I'm more of
a I'd be more in the Dodge Ram category. Is
my style? What and and the genesis that those are
sharp looking vehicles though too.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
But pricing they're they're not cheap out there, but look,
it's a it's a luxury car and for the best
and for the best pre owned if you are looking
for pre owned. They looked at those pre owned programs.
You know, all the brands have a program for their
used cars. Uh. And ever since they've started doing this,
they say Lexus has the best. Even a used Lexus
still has a six year bumper to bumper warranty, plus

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a lot of other perks.