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The 10 most reliable new cars - and the 10 most likely to go wrong
According to a new study by Which http://www.which.co.uk/ ,a consumer group who surveyed more than 84,000 drivers to establish which new cars suffered the fewest breakdowns, faults and niggles.
The Honda Accord, which sells for just under £20,000, came top with a reliability rating of 98.5 per cent, while the Honda Jazz came a close second with a 98.2 per cent.
At the other end of the scale, the Audi A5 was rated the new car most likely to go wrong, scoring just 75.8 per cent for reliability, putting it bottom of the 121 models reviewed.
Here is the top and bottom ten in full.
The 10 most reliable new cars
1. Honda Accord 98.5%
2. Honda Jazz (2008-present) 98.2%
3. Daihatsu Sirion 97.5%
4. Hyundai i30 96.8%
5. Ford Fiesta 96.2%
6. Honda Jazz (2002-2008) 95.9%
7. Honda Civic Hybrid 95.7%
8. Citroën C1 95.7%
9. Toyota Prius 95.0%
10. Mazda 3 94.4%
The 10 least reliable new cars
112. Hyundai Santa Fe 82.2%
113. Jaguar S-type 81.2%
114. Volvo XC90 80.6%
115. Land Rover Freelander 80.1%
116. Ford S-Max 79.9%
117. Land Rover Discovery 79.5%
118. Alfa Romeo 159 79.0%
119. Jaguar XF 78.0%
120. Ford Galaxy 76.3%
121. Audi A5 75.8%
http://timesbusiness.typepad.com/money_weblog/2009/07/the-10-most-new-re...
Oh Brit, so you're a Dacia lover too? :)
Dacia is just above a Trabbant and below a Wartburg..:O)
What about DACIA? What's the rank of my favorite car? This study sucks!
"heat & sand don't affect a car much???"please quote your source on that piece of information...& as for Europe,it's not what i think,i know,for a fact that nowhere in Europe does it hit 50 deg.C plus heat along with 85% plus humidity consistently for a period of almost 2 months & if there is such a place in Europe,do point it out for me along with a current weather report as proof...& as crapcircle rightly pointed out,cars in Europe need efficient heaters NOT A/C's,it's the other way around here...& btw,GCC spec. is just that,in fact American cars in the US are US spec. NOT GCC,proof of that,go to any of the private car dealers here & buy a US import car from them then take it to the agent(jaidah for a chevy,al mana for a ford,dodge,etc),they won't touch the car & if they do,they'll charge you an arm & a leg for it & still won't guarantee that they'll fix it,know why? they'll tell you what i just did above,this car is US spec. NOT GCC,my father spent his lifetime working for GM mate,please don't give me lessons on cars & especially not on American cars...
Ever been to the car souq in Riyadh?
There are about 15,000 cars for sale at any given time..
The Mitsubishis seem to do really well...
They love their Pajeros there... as much as the Land Cruisers here... they are all over the place
And the Range Rovers in Abu Dhabi
In Saudi... they don't care... 90% of the cars are fit to go to a junk yard...
crapcircle... loved the Fitek and Steeshn
I Fiteck must be referring to V-Tec
and Steeshn must be some short form for station wagon
for some odd reason... the SUVs are still considered station wagons in the CRs I've noticed :-/
y r there no SUVs in the most reliable car list??/
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You can see it tomorrow: Grand Prix of Europe in Valencia, 15:00 hrs Doha Time. Hamilton is back on pole position.
F1 also need a crew of about 20 blokes just to start them up!
Formula 1 cars are the most unreliable. The engines are good for just 1.000 km!!
You simply don't seem to get it. A car in the gulf is only as reliable as its' a/c unit. It's a fact Europeans for the most part, drive neutered, tiny, "transportation". I haven't seen a single Ford Fiesta on Qatari roads yet, thankfully. A 1.1 liter engine would be a lethal crutch in this environment, getting away in a roundabout would be severely compromised. A Qatari most reliable cars survey would look something like this...
1. Land Cruiser/Lexus 570
2. Patrol
3. Camry
4. Prado
5. Corolla
etc. This is the "realm of Toyota", and if you ask any Qatari national why? They'll put it to you plain and simple. Not because of the styling (even they know these cars are fugly chuds), not for the handling or speed. They're utilitarian workhorses that rarely fail, and if they do, they are so common that even the most challenged mechanics can fix them because they know them inside out by now. There is also build quality and aftersales customer care. Toyota's dominance of this entire region was earned over the years by consistently delivering cars of proven quality and resilience to a market with some specific concerns. Ask any person from these parts what emotions does a long-since discontinued Toyota Cressida arouse. Or a Nissan Cedric. Iconic cars over here. They are to the gulf what the Mini was to the UK, the Fiat 500 to Italy, and the Golf to the rest of Europe. I know Saudis and Kuwaitis still highly value American junk, but I guess that's more of a nostalgic thing, or perhaps style matters to them more than substance. A couple of friends of mine in Dubai put together a "spot the ethnicity by the wheels" survey. These were the initial conclusions...
Shamians (Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan) - 90's BMW 3 series.
Egyptians - 80's Mercedes Benz.
Local Arabs - Patrol or Land Cruiser.
Baloosh (I believe it's slang for locals of Persian descent) - Lexus.
This was later rephrased to be
Shamians - "za3ra" (3 being a replacement for the Arabic "ayn")
Egyptians - "Shabah" and other ancient Benzes
Locals - "Fitek" and "Steeshn"
Baloosh - Lexus.
Cars carry an emotional importance. One man's gold is another's doodoo. And Arabs love their cars so much it's not uncommon for them to give alternate names to all the popular models, these names can vary from region to region and even country to country.
Where I'm from, the Golf Mk.II, in good condition, of course necessarily diesel powered, can cost you 5,000 euros easily. In Germany, you can find people who will pay you to drive that trash off their property. There's an inherent perception of value that has nothing to do with the logical, or market dictated. These things are after all, often the subject of passion.
must've been in the 11th spot ;Op
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Cogs,
Sorry about being a fool, but if you read the OP, it's a survey! It's what a sample of people in the UK think is a good car. If you ask a sample of people in Qatar, you would get different results.
People living here wouldn't choose those cars.
There must be something wrong here. I don't see a KIA in the top 10 most reliable.
Well, i'd like to correct you there, GCC spec is just American spec- different as the safety standards in America for cars is lower than that of Europe. European cars have to pass much more safety checks. And dispite what you might think, it's not just cold in Europe, gets up to same temperature that it does here, in some places.
The test is applicable to here as heat and sand don't effect a car much, infact their much better conditions than rain and cold as the car is preserved without rust, taking rust out of the equation, i think you'll find that the results of a same test would be the same in Qatar.
er giantcogsturin...weather affects a car very much my friend,which is why they have what is called a GCC spec.,so all cars which are officially imported into the GCC are of GCC spec. i.e they're made to withstand the extreme heat that the vehicles are subjected to in this part of the world,so a car of the same brand/type you see here will be different from a similar one in say Europe where they're made to withstand the extreme cold rather than the heat...so this survey is a UK specific one,at best it's applicable to the rest of Europe,definitely not to this neck of the woods...
Well, it is valid - weather doesn't effect a car that much. fool
(In the UK).
The weather/roads here are completely different, so whetever they found out is not valid.
They also haven't asked any LandCruiser owners :P