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    Consumer Reports’ Most Popular Used Cars, SUVs, and Trucks

    These are the used vehicles that buyers search for most often on Consumer Reports’ website

    2020 Ford Escape
    Ford Escape
    Photo: Ford

    With more than 37 million used cars forecasted by Cox Automotive to be sold in 2024, you have plenty of choices for your next used car, SUV, or truck. So how do you even begin to create a manageable list of candidates? One way is to take a look at what people are searching for here, on the Consumer Reports website. The 10 vehicles below represent the top used-car model pages, meaning they’re the vehicles that are most searched for by people coming to our site.

    Many of the models below are CR Recommended used cars, which means they scored well in our road tests, have good reliability, have standard electronic stability control (ESC), and performed well in crash tests if tested by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Models from recent years may also come with key active safety features as standard or optional equipment.

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    Below you’ll find our list of the 10 most popular used cars, SUVs, and trucks on CR.org, based on shoppers researching used vehicles. While our used-car data covers vehicles up to 20 years old, we’ve focused our write-ups on 3-year-old models. Three-year-old models are attractive because most leases end after three years. That means many of these cars have low miles, and because the lessor had to keep the car in good condition, the vehicles are likely to have been maintained properly and have interiors that were treated well.

    The vehicles are listed in order starting with the most researched model, and we included a list of the 11th through 20th most popular models at the end. We also identify when active safety systems, including forward collision warning (FCW), automatic emergency braking (AEB), blind spot warning (BSW), and rear cross traffic warning (RCTW) are optional or standard. Some of these models have our Green Choice designation, which highlights the vehicles with the cleanest emissions.

    If you’re a CR member, this article and the list below are already available to you. But if you haven’t signed up, click below and become a member to access the list and all our exclusive ratings and reviews for each vehicle we buy and test. Joining also gives you full access to exclusive ratings for all the other products our experts evaluate in multiple categories, including electronics and home appliances.

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    Jon Linkov

    Jon Linkov is the deputy auto editor at Consumer Reports. He has been with CR since 2002, covering varied automotive topics including buying and leasing, maintenance and repair, ownership, reliability, used cars, and electric vehicles. He manages CR’s lineup of special interest publications, hosts CR’s “Talking Cars” podcast, and writes and edits content for CR’s online and print products. An avid cyclist, Jon also enjoys driving his ’80s-era sports car and instructing at track days.