Always buy Japanese (except Nissan)...

useless_git_requires_wife

been telling people for years


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18973775


Japanese cars are 'most reliable' used car brands in UK



Japanese carmakers Honda, Toyota and Lexus have been named the most reliable used car brands in the UK in a survey by What Car? and Warranty Direct.
Suzuki and Subaru, also Japanese, were ranked fourth and fifth respectively in the survey of cars between three and 10 years old.
South Korean carmaker Hyundai shared sixth place with Japan's Mazda and Mitsubishi.
By contrast, Land Rover was the least reliable marque surveyed.
Other luxury car brands, including Audi, Jaguar and Mercedes, were also among the 10 least reliable.
"They need to do better," said What Car?'s editor in chief, Chas Hallett, insisting these marques' poor reliability would be "surprising to many".
"Reliability is so important to motorists, especially when times are tough."


Owners of used Hondas have a 10% chance of their cars suffering a breakdown, according to the survey of 50,000 Warranty Direct policies.
"Japanese carmakers really do deliver on reliability and Honda is exceptionally good at this," said Mr Hallett, pointing out that this was the seventh year in a row when Honda topped the ranking.
US carmaker Chevrolet was the only non-Asian marque to rank as one of the 10 most reliable used cars.
Some 22% of Chevrolets break down at least once each year.
By comparison, the worst performing Japanese brand was Nissan, with a failure rate of 25%, just ahead of South Korea's Kia at 26%.
By contrast, seven in 10 Land Rover owners will experience a breakdown in any given year, the survey said.

poppasmurf_bewdley

I've only ever had one Japanese car - a Mazda 323, and that goes down as the most unpleasant, uncomfortable, dull, noisy, creaky, car that I've ever owned.

neilmcl

useless_git_requires_wife wrote: »

Japanese cars are 'most reliable' used car brands in UK

And often the most boring.

pinkteapot

But, when they do break down, they're more expensive to fix.

In a survey last year, Porsche had the highest average repair cost with Mazda in second place! (http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-1686756/Most-reliable-cars-2010.html)

byjimini

I had a Suzuki Baleno as my first car and ran it into the ground.

Second car is a Skoda Fabia; it's had £800 of work in 2 years, pulls to the left sharply when driving and the power steering turns off and on randomly.

I want a Prius next.

Ionkontrol

Had a Celica Gen4 and put 120k on it.
Absolutely bulletproof reliability.

bugslet

Going back a bit, i had a super unstylish Nissan Bluebird. I was doing heavy mileage, abused it by not servicing it hardly, hammered it basically. It broke down at 161,000 miles and was fixed by spraying some WD40 on a butterfly valve, then head gasket went at 204,000 miles, otherwise it was an amazing car. Comfortable and reliable - I still miss it:o

Rolandtheroadie

Loved my Nissan Bluebirds (had 2 myself) with my favorite being my old dads imported Turbo x.
At 17 years old and not long passed, it felt like a flying machine.

ian103

neilmcl wrote: »

And often the most boring.

totally agree with exception of mx5, all jap cars Ive owned have been 100% reliable but very dull

knightstyle

Many so called Jap cars are made in the UK and other EU countries. So what constitutes a Jap car?

Rolandtheroadie

knightstyle wrote: »

Many so called Jap cars are made in the UK and other EU countries. So what constitutes a Jap car?

A car built by a company that is Japanese?