Estimated Time to Read:
Honda has come out on top in a study to find the most reliable car manufacturers, as Japanese brands dominated the list by occupying six of the top ten positions.
This has been determined by taking into account thousands of car warranty policies which are held through Warranty Direct for all vehicles which are under ten years old and have less than 100,000 miles on the clock.
Warranty Direct has then calculated a Reliability Index (RI) score for each manufacturer by looking at the average number of failures and their severity for every model manufactured by each car brand. The average RI score is 100, and the lower the score the more reliable manufacturer’s vehicles tend to be. This makes Honda’s score of just 30.75 even more impressive.
However, Japanese car brands didn’t have it all of their own way. South Korean manufacturer Kia had the most reliable individual model, with the Kia Picanto achieving an RI score of just 3.00! Honda were also some way down the order when it came to average repair costs, with Ford vehicles being the cheapest to repair overall.
MoneySupermarket has produced the following infographic based on the study
Related posts:
- How To Change A Car Tyre: Instructographic Differing cars have differing instructions on maintenance, the majority of which are as thick as...
- New Vs. Used Cars: Which is Best? With motoring costs continuing to increase, many motorists simply don’t have the disposable income which...
- Where is the World’s Largest Car Market? Many people around the world now look to automobiles as their main mode of transport....
- Top 5 Celebrity Drivers It is one of the many reasons that most people love celebrities and want to...
- Motorcycles vs Cars Riding a motorcycle without a helmet can be a real rush. The joys of the...
- The Safest and Most Dependable Cars for 2012 It can be very difficult trying to determine the reliability of a potential vehicle you...
- Tips for Driving Safely on Winter Roads With fall moving right along, it’s getting closer to the time of year when we...
- What Happens When You Get in a Car Accident in Mexico Whether you’re driving to Mexico to shop the mercados for a day or heading south...
- Car Accident Statistics Driving is done so frequently in America, that it almost becomes a mundane part of...