http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8634376/The-most-unreliable-car-ever.html

http://www.reliabilityindex.com/

Around the VAG Group:-

http://www.reliabilityindex.com/reliability/search/174

http://www.reliabilityindex.com/reliability/search/225

http://www.reliabilityindex.com/reliability/search/170

And the best:-

http://www.reliabilityindex.com/reliability/search/193

And the usual suspects:-

http://www.reliabilityindex.com/reliability/search/35

http://www.reliabilityindex.com/reliability/search/139

Nick

Just had occasion to view this for a second time and noticed a naughty little inconsistency.

Warranty Direct's top 100 cars reliability index says its a reliability index for cars "On the road in the last 12 months" - it doesn't say how old or the model range it is refering to.

Now, when you access the individual car reports you find that they are boken down into cars registered between 1997-2002 and Cars registered between 2001-2007. This can make a hell of a difference in the reliability rating index for a car e.g.

The now defunct Toyota Corolla.

If you take the 1997-2002 model you find it comes top of the index rating list for this period with a reliability index of 4.However, if you look at the details of the 2001-2007 model you find its reliability index has slipped to 22.

If you look at the top 100 cars there you'll see the Toyota Corolla at the top with a reliability index of 4. So Warranty Direct have onviously decided to choose the older model on which to construct the index position for this model. One wonders then, how they have gone about constructing the rest of the table.

They may seek justification from the fact that as of last year the average age of cars on the road was 7.1 years :-

http://www.motor-trade-insider.com/index.php/2010/07/average-age-of-cars-on-uk-roads-increases/

Just hope they've been consistent across the marques.

Of course they could have been selective on the basis that more of the early model were sold/registered than the later models and that wouldn't, of course, have anything to do with buyers of certain makes of car being more cautious than others and therfore more likely to take out extension warranties. Not much.If they have, that must diminish the validity of the main index, in that they are not comparing like with like. I'm sure when it comes to calculating their premiums they won't make such an elementary error.

Nick

Edited 21 August, 201114 yr by Clunkclick