Off road specialist, Jeep has come bottom in arguably the world’s largest ever study into car reliability, just ahead of another 4x4-maker, Land Rover. Almost one in every two (46 percent) of the American 4x4 giant’s models recorded a mechanical failure during a given twelve-month period.
The study by independent automotive warranty specialist, looked at more than 450,000 vehicles, across 33 manufacturers, from the UK and the USA.
Only two non-Far East manufacturers made it into the top ten - the BMW-owned, but Oxfordshire-built, MINI, and French player, Citroen, scoring ninth and tenth places respectively.
The reliability league table was based on the number of failures reported for every 100 policies sold to owners of vehicles aged 3-9 years old. Vehicles analysed were available in both UK and US markets.
Despite being the UK’s number one choice ford, was 14th, followed by Vauxhall in 19th, Volkswagen in 23rd, Renault in 29th and Peugeot the best of the bunch in 13th.
So which manufacturer had the least amounts of incidents? Actually it was Mazda, followed by Honda with Toyota in third place.
Oh dear, this is not good news for the owners but I bet old Livingstone is sniggering with delight at these findings as it’s just given him another angle for binning them off our roads. The fact they are now mechanically dangerous.
There’s something to zoom zoom about.
Jackie Violet