2018 What Car Reliability Survey
We asked more than 18,000 people to to tell us about the reliability of their cars. From that data, we've compiled ratings for 159 models from 31 different car brands. Here we reveal the most - and least - dependable car brands aged one to four years old and give our What Car? verdict on reliability.
Two cars claim the top spot in this year’s reliability survey: the petrol
Toyota Yaris and the Suzuki SX4 S-Cross. Both received perfect scores, with owners telling us their cars didn’t have a single fault in the previous 12 months.
Not far behind is the UK’s best-selling electric car, the
Nissan Leaf, followed by the
Toyota RAV4 and
Volvo V60; all three of these models achieved a fantastic rating of more than 99%.
The SX4 S-Cross’s excellence helped Suzuki to be the top brand for reliability among cars up to four years old, triumphing over Toyota, whose cars have long had a reputation for durability.
Suzuki stays in the top five for the reliability of its older cars, too. However, the most dependable brand for long-term ownership is Lexus, whose efforts are led by the CT hybrid hatchback. Meanwhile, Honda’s standing in the list of newer cars isn’t as strong as that of those other Japanese brands, partly due to the HR-V’s so-so reliability.The brand regains ground for the reliability of its older cars, though.
It’s great to see Alfa Romeo disproving its reputation for unreliability, with scores of 92.9% and 96.9% for newer Giuliettas and Giulias respectively, but diesel Giuliettas send it plummeting down the order among older cars.
As for other European brands, Dacia looks less appealing, sitting mid-table in the new order, but it jumps to second in the older list. It’s similar for Porsche, which scores poorly in the new car chart but sits seventh for older cars.
Land Rover doesn’t manage to pull itself up from the bottom of the table as its models age; in fact, its overall score drops for older cars.
The only relative high spots are the previous-generation and current Discovery, both of which have reliability scores of more than 85%.
This is the first year we’ve had enough data to include Tesla in our table. But it’s bad news, because the American firm recorded by far the lowest overall score, while its Model S sits at the bottom of the EV class with 50.9%.
Reliability by brand cars 1 to 4 years old
https://www.whatcar.com/news/reliability-survey-2018-11/
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