At the beginning of the year, the authoritative agency JDPower published another vehicle dependability study (VDS or Vehicle Dependability Study 2023).
Cars were evaluated according to the traditional scheme for American analysts – the number of technical problems per 100 vehicles (Problems Per 100 Vehicles – PP100). The higher the PP100 indicator turned out, the lower was the reliability of cars of one brand or another.
The world media then replicated a list of mass-market brands that produce the most trouble-free cars. They included: Lexus (133), Kia (144), Chevrolet (162), Mitsubishi (167), as well as Toyota, Mini and Nissan with the same PP100 score of 170 points.
However, almost no one wrote regarding who is located at the bottom of this ranking (excluding luxury brands). But the products of these brands are very popular not only in the world market, but also in Russia.
So. The following companies unexpectedly entered the anti-rating in terms of the number of faults (drumroll …): Ford (PP100 in his case was 249 points), which makes it the worst auto brand in terms of reliability in the mass segment. Volkswagen ranks second in this indicator (216 – PP100), while Subaru closes the top three (214 – PP100).
Interestingly, even Honda, whose cars have traditionally been considered the standard of reliability, managed to get into this anti-TOP (analysts counted the average number of problems with cars of this brand at 205 malfunctions per 100 cars).
This article was last edited on 04/10/2023 10:48 AM
