Posted on 09/20/2024 4:51:58 AM PDT by thegagline
Ranked: The Most Reliable Car Brands
As the saying goes, “It’s not how fast you can go, but how far you can get”—and in today’s world, a dependable car is crucial for getting you wherever you need to go.
Reliability, or how consistently a vehicle performs without experiencing mechanical failures or issues over time, remains a key factor when choosing which brand of vehicle to purchase.
This graphic visualizes the predicted reliability scores of various automakers, as ranked by Consumer Reports. The data is updated as of November 2023.
Asian Automakers Lead The Pack Lexus and Toyota ranked first and second respectively as Consumer Reports’ most reliable car brands in this latest edition of the rankings.
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Something must have changed. Recently I have heard nothing but horror stories about Mini’s needing service and shops being backed up for weeks. Same with BMW. Rivian…really?
I don’t know much, but I know Volkswagen deserves their grade.
And it’s not just the cost, as I understand it, they’re a bitch to work on.
German cars are usually pretty good but they have the reputation of overengineering the crap out of ‘em.
For example, my wife’s needed a battery last year, I found out you can’t just go to autozone and plop one in, the battery has to be “registered” with BMW or bad things happen in the form of trouble codes.
And to register it, whoever does the work has to have BMWs proprietary software and they don’t just hand that out to anybody.
So with parts and labor I got out of it for $300 and feel fortunate it wasn’t more. 😏
Speaking of the Pinto, I owned a 1974 Mustang Ghia. That’s where I learned how to use metal clothes hangers and cut up Campbells soup cans to repair the exhaust system problems. I also had the pleasure of learning about the rats nest vacuum hose system.
It already has for me to a certain extent......see post 24
When it needs a battery, I suspect you’ll experience the same
A friend of ours runs a 25/7 Towing / Wrecker Service. We live in a fairly affluent area.
He said the number one cars he gets calls for on sides of the roads are Mercedes and BMW.................
Just like our FIAT X1/9 from years ago.
Funnest car to drive ever!
But spent more time under it than in it!..............
Yeah, that's my biggest concern, honestly. The nearest MINI dealer is two hours away, and the local BMW dealer won't do repair work on them. I'm assuming anything that would generate a code -- or need registering -- would have to be done at the MINI dealer.
I've also heard BMW is notoriously bad for not sharing service data, even amongst it's own dealerships.
That’s awesome! I’ve always loved small, fast cars.
I am on my 4th Ford diesel truck over the last 30 years. All the previous ones went 250,000 miles plus with nothing but oil/tire changes. A couple had some small issues like my older dually dropped the serpentine belt once and the plastic clutch pin (the size of a pencil connecting the clutch peddle in the cab to the linkage) broke. Another newer one the bed camera went out. Other than that, they all ran like champs and pulled trailers like nobody’s business. The two later models (2018 and later) got 22 mpg on the interstate running 75 to 80 mph running with no trailer or heavy bed load. Top it off you can hang meat in my trucks in the summer thanks to the AC unit.
I went off script a couple times and bought a couple chev half tons for running around trucks and they were nothing but trouble. Constant electrical issues and such.
When you buy a cheap car, you get what you pay for.
We are fortunate enough to have a local import auto sales/service dealer fairly close by that we have used for routine maintenance in the past.....they never fail to slash what the maintenance cost would be at the dealership and the battery was no different, the beat it by right at half.
Maybe you can find something similar around you.
Don’t ever buy a BMW Z4................EVER!.............
I believe it
When you buy a cheap car, you get what you pay for.
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Not sure I generally agree with that.... I don’t think Toyotas are more money than most of the other comparable cars (size and how well equipped) on the list that are far less reliable. ‘Cheap’ also has to do with the cost of features....and the more features a car has, the more there is to go wrong.... Just ask anyone who has had to put in a new windshield lately (a regular windshield versus one that has rain sensors in it that not only are more expensive, there’s a ‘calibration’ cost to it.
The Mini is a lot of fun. I” be got a red 2015 convertible, and it’s the perfect fashion accessory for my blonde wife. While it has a turbo, I really miss the supercharger my ‘07 Mini had
2004 Tundra here, with 210,000.
I have replaced an alternator, and some front sway bars and the tailgate metal rope (North Dakota salt rusted the last two through).
That’s it. Prolly $500 in repairs over 20 years.
I maintain everything at a high level.
Right you are MINI man. When the paint started to peel on my 2002 red Ranger pickup (fantastic, reliable truck), I had just seen “Italian Job” and those little Coopers flying around. I said, “If I can fit into one, I’ll trade my Ranger in for it and use my old Suburban for my truck/snowplow/driveabout beater.”
Not only did I fit in it, I felt like a hand in a furlined glove in it. So I bought our first 4WD Countryman, turbocharged, white — named her “Marilyn” (white dress, nice hips) etc. In a few weeks, friend wife expropriated it for herself, saying “I feel so safe — I can accelerate or swerve out of danger like never before”. So I started driving her Highlander. Well, not long after I sold the Highlander and used it to help buy our second Countryman — red, 4WD, turbo, sport suspension (named him “Marlon”, as he exuded attitude); so now we were and His and Hers Coopers.
And I would add our approval to MINI’s high customer satisfaction rating.
In Eastern AZ, we have a canyon (Salt River Canyon) with an ingeniously engineered road through it. Every time I drive a turbocharged AWD MINI through it, especially the uphill part, I feel like I’m driving on rails, pedal to metal.
Infotainment systems are a big source of problems, the #1 problem according to many surveys, Connectivity for Apple Carplay, Android Auto and also wireless charging in particular.
Cars are downgraded as far as reliability because people have problems playing songs off their playlist. I guess that’s fair if that sort of thing is major part of someone’s life, but it doesn’t tell you how reliable a car is mechanically, or how many miles the car will last.
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