If you're a new car buyer, chances are an SUV is on your shopping list. And if that's the case, you're spoiled for choice. Each year, SUVs are becoming more and more popular, and to cover every nook and cranny of consumer interest, from small baskets to big boxes, automakers continue to diversify the range of SUVs and crossovers in their lineup. The automotive landscape includes models that cater to the frugal-minded among us, the most performance-focused buyers, and every consumer in between. As a result, the competition is forcing changes to these types of vehicles. The dull SUVs of yesterday still exist, but there are also a number of delightfully engaging alternatives as well, not to mention some seriously off-road capable options.
Finding the best SUV in a field this large is a lot to chew through. We've split the more than 200 new crossovers and SUVs for sale today across more than a dozen segments to find the ones that dare to be good. Our editors have put every SUV sold today through our comprehensive testing regimen to filter out the pretenders. We've driven them all to decide which ones deserve a spot on our 2024 Editor's Choice list, not to mention naming a few of the very best of these vehicles to our 10Best Trucks and SUVs of 2024.