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we review a lot of cars here at CNET and one of the most frequent questions I get is what are the best which ones do you like the most here's an easy way to sort them out I'm Brian Cooley with our top five cars of 2014 a sign of the times this is the most diverse list of top rated cars I think we've ever had it's kind of Noah's car carrier we've got a diesel a battery a hybrid a gas engine car and more all making the list let's go number five the 2014 BMW 535 D this is the car that proved to us here that a diesel makes for a great sports sedan fantastic torque great handling average mpg in the low 30s real world and the diesel options only about 1500 bucks more so you might actually earn it back and beyond in the time you have the car of course it's BMW so they make up for it by insulting you with an extra charge for a rear camera number for the 2014 Tesla Model S nobody does battery range like Tesla so it's a car you can really live with and go fast in and look good in now like all V's it still suffers from charge time that is a huge multiple of gas time even at one of their superchargers but if you want to crash a meeting of Silicon Valley VCS this is your best cover number three the 2015 Kia Soul evie no Tesla but it's not a hundred grand either for around twenty seven thousand after federal tax credit you get 93 miles of range snappily delivered with good performance and that Kia Soul design that has made it the king of its segment this is one of the few cars out there that really feels like it was meant to be electric number 2 is a 2015 BMW i8 show up in this and people will think you just held up an Auto Show the i8 is this traffic stopping ball of carbon fiber battery electrification and sensuous concept car lines unusual for the Germans it's a plug-in hybrid that can put that tech to work toward efficiency or toward really remarkable performance so in a sense you get to gawain cars for your hundred and forty grand but it's still the priciest corner before I take you to our darling of 2014 here are three cars that were marked by remarkable suckage each earning a middling OK rating with just two and a half stars the 2015 Infiniti q70 formance and bad ride quality there's a twofer the 2014 Fiat 500l roomy for a Fiat and a great sunroof but otherwise a great argument for a Kia Soul and the 2014 Ford Fiesta se EcoBoost you better like shifting a gutless car without Navarrete modern interface to fall in love with this one our number one CNET rated car of 2014 was the 2014 audi rs7 quattro I shot the video for this guy back in March of 14 and I could have told you then it would likely a cyst it doesn't do too much well just engine transmission connectivity interface efficiency styling and utility it does have a problem 105,000 of them actually but aside from price this is a car that does the art of automotive engineering proud more top 5 list to wake the car lover go to scenic on cars calm click on top 5