Honda is the number one most reliable manufacturer. For the third successive year.
Six out of the top 10 cars in the What Car?/Warranty Direct used car reliability survey were made by Honda.
Toyota finished second; and Subaru in third.
The Toyota Corolla (’00-’02) was the most reliable car in the survey overall, closely followed by the Honda CR-V (’97-’02). Third place in the model league table is a tie between the Honda HR-V (’99-’05) and Toyota Celica (’00-’06).
The Alfa Romeo GTV (’96-’03) was the least reliable car in the survey.
The study analysed data from 26 manufacturers and included 133 different models. Data from more than 35,000 vehicles was studied, and the average age of cars in the survey was 4.9 years.
The What Car? top 10 most reliable cars
- 1 Toyota Corolla (00-02) 3 faults per 100 cars
- 2 Honda CR-V (99-05) 5 faults per 100 cars
- 3= Honda HR-V (95-05) 6 faults per 100 cars
- 3= Toyota Celica (00-06) 6 faults per 100 cars
- 5 Honda S2000 (99-now) 7 faults per 100 cars
- 6= BMW 3 Series Compact (94-01) 9 faults per 100 cars
- 6= Honda Civic (96-01) 9 faults per 100 cars
- 6= Honda Accord (99-03) 9 faults per 100 cars
- 9 Honda Civic (01-05) 10 faults per 100 cars
- 10 Nissan Micra (98-02) 11 faults per 100 cars
- Table shows model, followed by year of manufacture and faults per 100 cars.
Further information
- Honda was also named the most reliable new car manufacturer recently in a survey of the UK’s top 50 leasing companies. The Fleet News FN50 Car Reliability Survey can be read here.
Four Hondas in top 10 list of most reliable used cars
