A recent survey has ranked car producing nations by their reliability.
Owners of Japanese models can feel smug as the Asian powerhouse came out top. It may come as no surprise as the nation has become notorious for its levels of quality and longevity.
Owners of British cars will be disappointed to find that out of the eight countries included in the list, our home nation came last. The UK figures were drawn from cars made by Jaguar, Land Rover and Vauxhall.
The league was produced using a sample of cars owned in the UK which had around 50,000 miles on the clock and averaged five years old. They were given reliability scores and the lower, the better.
Japan was top scoring only 80 followed by France (113), South Korea (123), USA (156), Sweden (158), Germany (168), Italy (170.5), and UK (209).
David Gerrans from Warranty Direct who ran the survey said: "Though the automotive industry has many blurred lines now in terms of countries of origin, the average consumer maintains certain preconceptions about car brands and the countries that create them."
'German reliability' is an oft-used phrase, but as demonstrated here, the country's output as a whole doesn't match up to its close neighbours, the French, whose cars as a whole are more reliable."
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