Purty Fancee
The best vehicle to carry a boat is the one you have. Even if you buy something new you will have to adapt it to fit a safe carrier.
The other problem is that there is not a new car that I would buy right now. Checking on the few models that intrigued me showed a whole mess of problems, from wrong chips in the electronics to just shoddy construction.
The auto industry is still in the post pandemic shortage phase that everyone else is and they are making do rather than building quality cars.
If you are not tying the boat down to factory roof rails, in addition to the rack, using both bow and stern lines will keep the boat and rack more or less on the car in the event of a catastrophic rack failure or in the event of an accident.
Avoid open hooks to secure bow and stern lines on undercarriage tiedown points. They have a nasty tendency to bounce loose on rough roads or if there is any slack in the tiedown lines. If they get caught by a tire they can destroy your boat and damage your rack and vehicle.
One that’s paid off. 
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Any vehicle can pull a good canoe trailer.
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On my daughter’s Forester, we bought the Yakima Timberline towers and put them at the extreme front and back of the factory rack. That gave us about 20" of extra space between the bars as opposed to the bars that came with the car. That made quite a difference and allowed us to space a my 16’ Prospecteur out enough that it was solidly strapped down on the bars. With hood and hatch anchors to tie to bow and stern, it is very secure. Very similar to the photo above.
If Shaggy met Susan Dey
and Shirley shook her cowbell,
Elmo’s Overture of bongo bygone
Banana Splits fruit labors Bill now Tells.
And to put it all within white bus
awaiting Peter’s max paint stirs me,
to pen this paean to that paddlin’ devil
whom hippy trippys those swamps of Joisey.
Ya know Chunky Pam, FatElmo, deserves thee!
