Best family SUVs 2025: our favourite SUVs for kids and cargo
Want practicality, class and an elevated driving position in a relatively compact and affordable package? These are the top 10 cars you should be looking at – and the ones that are best avoided...
If any class of car were to be likened to the Swiss Army Knife, then surely it must be the family SUV. These are some of the most versatile cars around – and they need to be. After all, they'll be asked to do everything from the school run to long motorway trips, and be asked to transport both kids and cargo without missing a beat. In short, to be the best family SUV, you need to do just about everything well.
Since this is a very popular class of car, it won't surprise you to learn that just about everyone makes a family SUV these days. Our list covers cars which are available with traditional petrol and diesel power, as well as hybrid and plug-in hybrid power options and even a growing number of electric SUVs.
Choosing the best family SUVs requires rigorous testing, then, but it's a task that our experienced team of road testers are more than up to. They've driven every family SUV on the market over thousands of miles, spending hundreds of hours behind the wheel both on public roads, and testing models back-to-back against their key rivals at our private test track. We've also filled them to the brim with people and luggage to see how they handle when fully laden.
The result of all that testing is the feature you see here, where we're naming the very best family SUVs, as well as the one we'd avoid. Remember that if any car here takes your fancy, you can learn more about it by following the links through to our in-depth reviews, or see the latest deals available through our New Car Deals service.
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