In recent years, with the rapid development of Vehicular Adhoc NETwork (VANET), wellclassified routing protocol and comparative analysis are important for future study. This paper dealt with the ambiguous classification and deficient analysis of the routing protocol in VANET, classifying and summarizing the routing protocols on the basis of topology, geography and hybrid route in turn. Mainly introducing some classical routing protocols, it analyzed their characteristics and performance, and put forward the advantages and disadvantages as well as improvements. Special stress was put on the comparative analysis of Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) and opportunity routing protocol which would become hot spots for future geographic routing study. Besides, the major challenges and potential opportunities that VANET was facing were pointed out, which had laid the foundation of future protocol study and suggested the path to research clearly.