Car and Driver 10Best 2012
The top 3 according to 24 votes from people: Volkswagen Golf / GTI · BMW 3 Series / M3 · Honda Fit. (Updated Jul 13, 2023.)
Car and Driver's 2012 10Best list with an $80,000 price cap, the cars its editors judged best that year.
Top 10
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Volkswagen Golf / GTI
2012 10Best Cars pick.
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BMW 3 Series / M3
2012 10Best Cars pick.
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Honda Fit
2012 10Best Cars pick.
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Ford Mustang GT / Boss 302
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Cadillac CTS-V
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Ford Focus
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Mazda MX-5 Miata
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Porsche Boxster / Cayman
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Audi A6 / A7 3.0T quattro
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Honda Accord
2012 10Best Cars pick.
How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.
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Comments (18)
The Miata, forever.
Car and Driver puts the Accord on every year, at this point it's a tradition not a review.
It wins because it's genuinely great. Ask anyone who's driven one for 200k miles.
Fine, but some years the Camry was just as good and never made it.
The Camry is many things. Fun to drive isn't one of them 😂
Boxster and Cayman every year, sure, if you have 60k.
Audi A6 on a 10Best list feels like a dad pick.
Dads deserve good cars too 😤
Love seeing old 10Best lists, 2012 was a great year for manuals.
No hybrids, no EVs, 2012 was a different world.
Boss 302 Laguna Seca edition, wish I had bought one.
The Honda Fit on 10Best again? It's a nice car but 'best'?
The Fit is the definition of the list: fun to drive, smart, cheap. That's the point.
Magic seats in the Fit were genius, I moved a whole bike in mine.
Golf GTI over the Focus ST? The new ST came out that year and was a blast.
The Focus ST was on the list in 2013, they waited a year.
CTS-V wagon with a manual, the coolest car GM ever made.
Boss 302, one of the best Mustangs ever.