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German cars are among the most likely to develop faults or break down, according to a survey of owners published in Britain today.
Audi, BMW and Volkswagen have all been bad for reliability evaluated in the study of the Consumers' Association.
However, the cars of Japanese and Korean manufacturers scored among the highest with drivers.
The survey found the money are not always without automobile problem with expensive models among the least reliable.
Down for the second consecutive year was the TT sports model Audi TT 43 owners with up to two years, 21 said their car had broken down in the last 12 months.
Second to last was the E-Class Mercedes Benz German car manufacturer, with 16 of the 44 examples in the survey needing attention last year.
Among the most reliable cars was Hyundai Getz None of the 30 in the survey broke down last year.
The same is true for ZT and ZT-T, Mazda's 323 and Toyota Corolla and Corolla Verso models of MG.
Just behind, with 99 reliability were the Honda Civic, CR-V and Jazz, as well as the Mazda 6 and 406 and Peugeot 406 Coupe.
The Consumers Association UK has documented 34.277 cars aged up to eight years from its magazine readers.
The owners were invited to comment failures, defects or glitches with the car in the last 12 months.
Malcolm Coles, editor of Which Britain said German cars have always been expensive, but our survey shows a worrying decline in the reliability that makes them much more expensive.
Duncan Forrester, director of media relations in the UK at BMW, said it is an interesting investigation and out each year.
The results of this year, based on 1,388 BMW cars, with our experience didnt correlated.
Our history, which refers to 100 BMW cars, doesn t suggest that low reliability and failure worse Rather, we find improves considerably.
Paul Buckett, head of press and public relations at VW, also questioned the findings of the investigation.
The sample size of the survey is very low, he said he is also very curious that we VW Bora is ranked near the top for reliability and Golf, which is technically almost identical to low the bottom.
A spokesman said Mercedes We recognize that surveys like this raise awareness about the reliability However, the results here contradict those of other quality reports elsewhere.
In a statement, Audi says the reliability of Audi figures were temporarily low due to exceptional ignition coil problem and one that has been corrected for the production of cars in 2003.
1 8 T engine is one of the affected units widely used, and as it feeds all but two TT models and A4 multiple versions caused a slowdown for these specific cars.
The level of brand reliability for current Audi models normally falls very close to, or better than, the average 94 of the most recent report.
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