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Cheapest Sedans of 2025

Shop the most affordable sedans as determined by Kelley Blue Book's trusted experts. You'll find ratings, fuel economy, price and more. Explore the rankings and find the perfect car for you.

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2025 Nissan Versa

2025 Nissan Versa

$18,330
Starting Price
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4.2
rating
Expert Rating
30 MPG
Combined Fuel Economy
The least expensive new car you can buy in America, the 2025 Nissan Versa delivers value, comfort, and impressive gas mileage.
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The 2024 Mitsubishi Mirage is an affordable and efficient option in a shrinking class of subcompact cars, but its similarly priced rivals are more modern.

2024 Mitsubishi Mirage G4

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The 2024 Kia Forte is the bargain among compact sedans, offering loads of room, impressive fuel economy, and solid resale value.

2024 Kia Forte
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The 2025 Nissan Sentra is a good car among greats. It’s a competent and easy-to-live-with compact sedan with attractive pricing and good fuel economy.

2025 Nissan Sentra

The 2025 Kia K4 is an all-new, tech-forward and exceptionally roomy compact sedan with a design set to shake up the segment.

2025 Kia K4

The 2025 Hyundai Elantra is a highly compelling compact sedan packed with features and style, plus an unbeatable warranty.

2025 Hyundai Elantra

The 2025 Toyota Corolla sedan continues delivering safe, comfortable, reliable, and fuel-efficient driving at an affordable price.

2025 Toyota Corolla

The 2025 Volkswagen Jetta delivers European refinement and handling at a low price. Noteworthy improvements make it even better for 2025.

2025 Volkswagen Jetta

The 2025 Mazda3 is an exceptionally sporty and stylish compact car that also offers upgrades like a powerful turbocharged engine and all-wheel drive.

2025 MAZDA MAZDA3

The Honda Civic is consistently one of our favorite compact cars, and that remains true with the outstanding 2026 model.

2026 Honda Civic

Already the oldest contender, the 2025 Chevrolet Malibu prepares to bow out from the midsize sedan class.

2025 Chevrolet Malibu

The 2024 Toyota Camry midsize sedan swims against the tide of fashion, but fashion can’t always create such a consistent and sensible car.

2024 Toyota Camry

The only midsize sedan with standard all-wheel drive, the 2025 Subaru Legacy is a roomy, comfortable family hauler with top-notch advanced safety tech.

2025 Subaru Legacy

The 2025 Nissan Altima is a comfortably adequate sedan that swims in a sea of excellent competitors.

2025 Nissan Altima

The 2025 Hyundai Sonata is a sharp-looking midsize sedan with features and tech bordering on the luxurious.

2025 Hyundai Sonata

The 2026 Kia K5 is a practical, affordable, and high-tech midsize sedan with a sportier edge and more daring styling than most of its rivals.

2026 Kia K5

The Honda Accord earns our Best Buy Award for its blend of daily practicality, excellent driving manners, and outstanding overall quality.

2025 Honda Accord

The 2025 Volkswagen Jetta GLI gets a fresh face and keeps the manual gearbox alive.

2025 Volkswagen Jetta GLI

The Hyundai Elantra N is a sport compact with truly engaging performance, a class-leading warranty, and an attractive price tag.

2025 Hyundai Elantra N

The exhilarating Subaru WRX is true to form with a manual transmission and all-wheel drive, and it’s full of modern technology and engineering.

2025 Subaru WRX
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What Our Ratings Mean

  • 0-1.0: This is the rarest group of all because a really bad new car is really, really hard to find these days. We recommend that you pass on any vehicle receiving a rating between 0 and 1.
  • 2.0: Cars landing in this set are also rare. Only true love and limitless passion (or a free vehicle) should allow you to give in to temptation for one of these vehicles.
  • 3.0: Is the vehicle you’re looking at in this range? We’d bet that if you look a little harder, you’ll find a better vehicle at a similar price to fulfill your needs.
  • 4.0: This is the area where the rubber meets the recommendations. The 3-4 range is full of good cars and some great ones. Starting here, it’s OK to listen to your heart.
  • 5.0: These scores represent the cream of the crop, with “5.0” representing, well, near perfection. Any car you choose in this group will treat you very well over time.

How Kelley Blue Book Rates Cars

Rather than pulling random numbers out of the air or off some meaningless checklist, KBB’s editors rank a vehicle to where it belongs in its class. Before any car earns its KBB rating, it must prove itself to be better (or worse) than the other cars it’s competing against as it tries to get you to spend your money buying or leasing.

Our editors drive and live with a given vehicle. We ask all the right questions about the interior, the exterior, the engine and powertrain, the ride and handling, the features, the comfort, and of course, about the price. Does it serve the purpose for which it was built? (Whether that purpose is commuting efficiently to and from work in the city, keeping your family safe, making you feel like you’ve made it to the top — or that you’re on your way — or making you feel like you’ve finally found just the right partner for your lifestyle.)

We take each vehicle we test through the mundane — parking, lane-changing, backing up, cargo space and loading — as well as the essential — acceleration, braking, handling, interior quiet and comfort, build quality, materials quality, reliability.

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