Best Family Cars

A family car is a vehicle that can transfer a family safely and comfortably from one point to another. Depending on the size and conventions of a family, a family car may be a subcompact car, a compact car, a small car, a midsize car, a large car, a luxury car, a hatchback, a sport utility vehicle or a crossover SUV. There are excellent family cars to be found across all price ranges. Here we'll review two excellent choices of family cars available for low to midrange prices.

The Honda Fit is one of the best family cars in the subcompact range. It is an extremely desirable car for a small and nuclear family. This car comes in several versions - manual, automatic, manual sport, automatic sport, automatic sport with navigation etc. The price ranges from $15,000 to $19,000. Fuel efficiency of the Honda Fit is extremely good, and it gives more than 27 miles per gallon in the city and more than 33 miles per gallon in the highway. The chassis is strongly built, and can withstand great impacts while protecting the passengers to a large extent. The suspensions are also greatly built, to withstand the bumps of the roughest of country roads. As such, this car is not only suitable for city driving, but is also a good option for the highway and the countryside. Together with its great fuel efficiency, the Honda Fit also provides a steady performance in terms of acceleration and power. It is fitted with a 1.5 liter engine consisting four cylinders. In all, the engine generates a power of 117 hp. Such numbers actually draw comparison of the Honda Fit to sports cars.

In the compact car range, it's again another Honda that can be considered to be one of the best family cars. The Honda Civic, with its great looks and good performance in terms of power and acceleration, steals the show from other contenders in this category. The Honda Civic is available in a price range of $15,000 to $25,000. It comes in several manual and automatic coupe, deluxe and sedan versions. This car has been one of the most popular in its segment, and the sales have been such that prospective buyers have had to wait at times a couple of weeks prior to delivery. Being a compact car, the Honda Civic again provides great fuel efficiency of 25 miles per gallon in the city and more than 35 miles per gallon in the highway. This is in fact one of the best mileages by any compact car. Such high fuel efficiency only adds to the appeal of this compact family car.