Do you need to access the rear of your vehicle while carrying bikes? Most hitch racks tilt down or swing to the side to let you open the rear hatch or trunk of your vehicle (although you’ll have to remove the bikes with most hanging-hitch racks). With some wider vehicles, you may be able to fit four bikes on the roof. We don’t recommend carrying four or more bikes on a trunk rack because it puts too much stress on the attachment points with your car. If you want to carry four or five, and you can’t put any inside the vehicle, you’ll need to use a hitch rack or a combination of trunk and roof racks (or go all out and use a bike trailer). How many bikes do you want to carry? If you’re carrying one to three bikes, any type of rack will do. You can also check the websites of U-Haul, Curt Manufacturing,, and Amazon to see if tow hitches are available for your vehicle. 
A hitch can reduce a vehicle’s ground clearance, causing it to scrape on the ground at times.
MODEL 3 ROOF RACK WEIGHT PRO
If you don’t already have a tow hitch, you can have one installed on most vehicles for about $200 to $300, but if you have a small car, you should check with a pro installer to make sure that installation is advisable. The size of the hitch receiver tube also affects your choice: Most racks have versions for a 2-inch receiver fewer have 1¼-inch versions (and many smaller cars can’t accommodate a 2-inch receiver).
Does your vehicle have a trailer hitch (or can you have one installed)? If you have a hitch, we recommend a hitch rack if not (and if installing one isn’t in the cards), you’ll have to consider another style. If your car didn’t come with them, you can buy them from Thule or Yakima (this also gives you the option of carrying other gear, from skis to canoes to a cargo carrier). Your vehicle needs to have roof rails to mount the rack onto (something that’s true of all roof racks). The HighRoad fits a wide variety of bikes, and it lets you lock your bikes to the rack as well as lock the rack to the vehicle’s roof, which not all roof racks do. It holds your bike solidly by the front wheel, which we like better than fork-mount designs because the rack doesn’t contact your bike’s frame, and you don’t have to take off the bike’s front wheel and carry it separately. Of the roof racks we tested, the Yakima HighRoad was the easiest to work with-both when mounting it on the vehicle and when loading bikes. 
Although they’re more expensive than trunk racks and not as easy to use as hitch racks, roof racks give you unimpeded access to your vehicle’s cargo area, and they’re the only option for some car designs.
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