Regardless, the longing so many have for a sports car is real. Here, Driving.ca’s contributors put their collective heads together and came up with the top choices in five key categories.

With an enormous pool of cars with a power-to-weight ratio of less than 235bhp/tonne to draw upon, the Production Cup is another category with the potential to be popular from the start.

Lowest-Rated Midsized Sedan: Chrysler 200 A mediocre car in a category overflowing with competent, and even excellent, alternatives, the 200 drives like it's from a previous era.

For the 2024 list of best value new cars, we’ve expanded the categories to more closely align with those used in Cars.com’s research tools.

To start, I will list the categories for you, then drill down to the sizing formula - yes, there is a formula. Generally, consumer vehicles are labelled as Passenger Car or Light Truck.

This category covers the middle ground, generally known as the C-Segment, spanning cars and crossovers, but in the latter case the focus is more on the front-wheel-drive derivatives and their role ...