Most popular price comparisons

I used to update the list of most popular car price comparisons every month or two. But they rarely changed much, so…well, it’s been nearly a year.

And still there haven’t been many changes. The former #1 and #2, Accord-Camry and Odyssey-Sienna, have been displaced all the way to #2 and #3. The new #1: Honda CR-V vs. Toyota RAV4, up from #4. Aside from that shift, the top five remain the same. As before, every one of them is Honda vs. Toyota.

Honda continues to dominate the list. Twenty-four of the top forty comparisons include at least one Acura or Honda model.

The highest ranked comparison that’s not all Japanese? #8: Audi A4 vs. BMW 3-Series. The BMW benchmark appears three other times in the list.

When this list was first compiled there wasn’t a single American car in it. There still aren’t many: domestic cars appear in only seven comparisons. Highest ranked is Tahoe /Suburban vs. Yukon, at #23. These aren’t fashionable vehicles lately. Perhaps one site visitor performed a larger number of comparisons between them.

Two rungs further down: Chevrolet Malibu vs. Ford Fusion. Neither car was on the list last time. This time around, the Fusion appears four times on the list (the Malibu just this once). The midsize Ford appears to be a rising favorite among the sort of car buyers who usually shop the Accord and Camry.

No Chrysler model is on the list.

One final surprise: despite relying heavily on price for sales, a Hyundai only appears on the list once, the Santa Fe at #29. The previous list also included the Accent, Elantra, and Sonata, but they aren’t being researched as often in recent months.