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I'll stick to my Rover 75 Tourer Auto 2003 Thanks !! 210k miles no major issues and very cheap to repair. No repair has cost over £200. The M47 BMW engine is good for half million miles. With all the £1000's we've saved by not buying a new car we've been on some fantastic holidays 3 times a year 😀 Happy days ✅
In my country, salespeople keep making excuses to make European cars sell like saying that theyre unreliable because theyre advanced or because theyre not designed for the heat of tropical climate.
Regular cars have 10% of the features offered by luxury cars - a lot less things to break. And even those that are left - older generations, proven technologies, harder plastics :-) On a premium car you get the latest tech everywhere. Keep it while it's on manufacturer's warranty, get rid of it when warranty expires. They don't build them to last forever anymore, sadly.
The most shocking thing for me in this video is that warranty wise paid out. I had a terrible time getting them too pay up for my car when I had a warranty through them and when they agreed I couldn't find a garage too do the repairs because nobody wanted too deal with them. Even 3 of there own recommended garages turned me away as they said they didn't want too pay correct labour charges. I ended up paying for repairs myself.
I don’t know anyone who has ever gone back to Warranty Wise based on their experience of making perfectly valid claims that these cowboys tried to argue away
Weird carwow would even mention and kinda work with, at least on this video with a shady company like that... Made me get annoyed every time Mat said warranty wise...
He would not be able to do that, from a single source, and what manufacturer, is going to tell him their own warranty costs. And, in the first 3 years, most vehicles don't have many problems, not covered by warranty. Stupid requests!
@@fyasin4877 you would surprised how many people own an alfa..let's face it who would want to own German barges after that but let's face it you do have to be brain dead to buy German or self opinionated
Why would luxury brands improve if they know rich people will simply shrug off the repair bill? All they need to figure out is the amount customer will pay without complaining.
@@leejimFMSA actually certain versions of top class cars are better than previous or newer versions, things are added, changed or taken away that make a certain version no problem at all.
@@f-u-nkyf-u-ntime they had to improve them. Expensive cars with such high prestige should never have so many problems. It also helps that when people buy them, they can afford to repair/look after them.
This episode was awesome : ) this is what we need keep manufacturers honest and doing their job properly. Making quality products that command a premium price make sure it’s top notch. Thanks car wow.
Something to take into account: notice how this list is mostly luxury brands / expensive models? Thats because people that can afford these cars are the ones taking extended warranty. The cheap / middle class cars aren't represented. Who wants extended warranty on a cheap car that, if it breaks down, is cheap to fix? Nobody. Somebody making boatloads of money doenst want the hassle of finding the cheap local mechanic, dealing with waiting times etc. They just want their m5 fixed, ASAP.
True, but also cars like these are too complicated and poorly engineered from the outset leading to difficult repairs and unreliability. Although the dumb complexity applies to cheaper cars too. There should be legislation in place to make cars simpler and less complicated, the irony is it is dumb emissions legislation that make them expensive and unreliable in some areas
Hoping to see a 'most reliable' list as well. Dreadful to see all those 'premium' cars on there. Had my Skoda Yeti for 10 years and 85,000 miles. Not a single issue. Wish I hadn't sold it for my unreliable BMW X1.
Toyota better be among the top. My father had one that went 490k kilometres. He bought it used and drove quite a bit and the only repair he did was a timing belt I believe
loll no matter who owns the brand it will forever be a british just like volvo isn't chinese because chinese company owns it it will forever be a swedish
These prices quoted to fix these issues are absolutely disgusting, just goes to show how insurance works. Taking a lot of these issues to a decent local mechanic would no doubt cost a lot less.
@@baldyhead it might be the problem in lower latitude and worse diesel quality in Taiwan, Thailand and Malaysia. In Europe and Japan not nearly as problematic. I guess it's because of better diesel quality and colder and drier climate. In Taiwan the 2.2D engine can suffer blown head gasket causing coolant to spray over the engine, which will require an engine replacement after the coolant leak. Fortunately Taiwan Mazda offer lifetime warranty for the diesel engine on CX-5 and Mazda6. In Japan most CX-5 were diesel variant, from by observation during my Japan trip.
Warranty wise will not pay for dealer to repair the car. They typically only allow £25 labour charge and I believe £50 on platinum package appon request and extra charges. With porches reading charging £150 for labour.
Any dealer has a lot of mouths to feed plus they have to make a little profit. You want to pay at least 50% more, go to a dealer. Find an independent mechanic and you'll save. It's a challenge to find a good honest mechanic.
The design of the internals contributes significantly to labour. If a lot of disassembly is required to fix an otherwise trivial issue, the labour costs will explode regardless of how much brand premium is slapped on top.
This list here takes the price of the repair into account, which obviously leads to more luxury brands in the top places, they are produced in lesser numbers and use more expensive parts, so the repair is more expensive. A much better metric to measure how reliable a car (atleast what the most people mean when talking about reliability) is to look at how often / how long a car model had to visit a workshop on average. I think measuring the average time a certain car model spend in a workshop is far more useful to figure out how reliable a car is. If they wouldn't have used this "minimum of 100 cars" - requirement in this survey, the whole list would be full of super- and hypercars, because changing tyres on a bugatti will cost more than buying a new toyota. Your 10k car can break down 20 times and this list would still say it's more reliable than a hypercar which has to do a single repair. In my opinion the way they measured reliability here is not really useful. Which doesn't mean that I think the luxury brands wouldn't still be on top, but I think it's mainly about the higher complexity of luxury cars and not the build quality. When there is more tech and stuff in your car, then there is more stuff to break.
You’re right, but even time spent being repaired can’t be used as a gauge because most shops are under staffed and can’t find people to work, which in turn takes longer to repair. At least that’s how it is in the US right now.
@@user-s45c No, the way they tested it just hasn't anything to do with reliability. What they measured is a part of the ownership cost (gas and insurance excluded) and they found out (who could have guessed it), that expensive cars are more expensive to keep running.
A great addition to this list would be which engine, or at least fuel the unreliable car has. The Mazda CX-5 for instance, turbo issue which indicates that the diesel's are unreliable seeing as the Skyactiv G engine doesn't have a turbo (Except the 2.5 in a few markets).
Yeah i was shocked to see the Mazda here, until he mentioned the turbo. I'm on a lot of Mazda groups and the only thing I hear people complain about is the diesel turbo.
Yep, I have to agree that Mazda's diesel engine is unreliable, the coolant may spray out in higher mileage, too low compression causes DPF to fail and oil level rising easily.
I have had a Mazda 2 skyactiv D (1.5 diesel turbo). In 7 yrs only had: an O2 sensor go wrong (fixed for free outside of warranty); bumps stops for rear shocks degraded at 7 yrs; on my 2nd new battery - they last 3 yrs. As for CX-5s I have heard of head gasket issues, ut normally fixed for free and warranty extended.
@@csjrogerson2377 I don't know about Mazda, but the Discovery Sport and Evoque suffer from this problem. Apparently the DPF is too far away from the manifold due to design issues, such that cleaning requires the engine management to inject a lot of extra diesel into the cylinders in order to raise DPF temeratures sufficiently. Some of this finds its way past the pistons and into the oil. you get a very early service light on and it requires an oil change.
The service manager at my local JLR dealer is “Bob”. Bob and I got to know each other very well in the 9 months I owned my 2021 Land Rover Discovery. I had a 36 month lease - dealer let me walk away. Never had so many electrical issues in a car in my life. Great ride, lovely interior. Guess I was lucky that COVID made the value invert and they were able to resell. BTW, my check engine light first lit up after only ten days of ownership! The topper was the hatch opening on its own. That’s a party trick for sure.
Nothing new there. I personally would not touch a Land Rover product with numerous bargepoles fastened together. Depending on the size of 4x4 you want/need, either Toyota, or the likes of Hyundai/Kia can meet your needs. Ok, they don't have the same social clout at a wine & cheese party, or a grouse shoot, but who the hell needs his vehicle to be in the workshop being fixed every few weeks? A friend of mine bought a new Kia Sorrento (which as you may know, is RR sized) and has covered 80k miles in it in 4 years or so. Not a single thing has gone wrong, and all it has required has been regular servicing. He has a new one on order. And I'm guessing he *doesn't* know the service manager's name at his local Kia dealer.....My friend with the Sorrento also mentioned that one particular Kia he was told about, developed a gearbox fault with just a few months of the original manufacturer's warranty left. They fitted a new gearbox without so much as a quibble.....
I switched to Kia Sportage from Audi A7 55TFSI, that was a good looking car, but oh boy those issues were driving me mad, the active rear spoiler worked for 2 days since new plus numerous stupid errors on my dash, Kia zero issues whatsoever 😅
Please do a dragrace with all of these cars, and then at the end instead of the brake test, do the break test. AKA; go and see which one breaks in the shortest distance🤣
Think my Cupra Formentor should be up there. Couldn’t have been more excited when I ordered one, I’ve had nothing but issues and faults the last year since taking delivery 😂
The Diesel version is probably to blame. Here in the US and Canada the CX5 have a pretty good reliability score. The Diesel model is pretty inexistent.
@@Driftuner ya me too, we have the 2.5 liter N/A, that engine is pretty bulletproof and the 2.5 turbo. The turbo seem to be pretty reliable to because Mazda use it in pretty much every car they make except the Miata/MX5 and I never heard anything bad about it.
I owned a f82 m4 & put 106k miles on it. Zero issues & was stage 2+ BM3 Must have got lucky but was serviced every 5k miles / 6 months. Driven how it was meant to be with lots of road trips around Ireland :)
I also had a e92 m3 for the past 9 years (sadly it got stolen), 76k km no engine mods, exhaust and track mods (brakes, suspension, seats, etc) and I would track the car about 4 times a year, zero issues, but I also serviced the car before and after each track day. It mattered alot how the driver threated the car (warmups, cool downs, service etc) I knew of a e92 who managed to damage it's rodbearings at 13k km and it was 100% the driversfault, he was driving like a barbarian.
I think the Ford Ranger that cost over £13k to fix might have been mine. Not only did it have a replacement engine after only 9k miles we also lost the use of it for... 5 months (commercial pickup truck registered to my business used daily for deliveries replaced with a focus courtesy car 🤣) whilst they tried to work out what was wrong with it, in the end they couldn't so replaced the engine and some other associated bits and pieces.
Jaguars having awful reliability is a myth that stems out of lucas electronics in the 70s and 80s. Sure, they're not a Toyota but they're not really any better or worse than their german counterparts, as shown by this list.
@@Lukaz0r yeah my dad's had two jags and neither of them have had any major failings beyond what my mums much newer vw has also had. And an XJ is a lot more complicated than an up!
@@Ewannj I can only speak from experience, I have had 2 Jaguars, an XK and an XK8. They were both shockingly unreliable and very expensive to repair. The dealers were also poor. Like I said, it is only my experience, but I wouldn’t ever by Jaguar again. This is tempting fate, we have had a Maxda CX5 diesel from new … not had a spot of bother from it 7 years in.
WOW. Look at this. How truthful at least. 1 French car on the list that had issues cause it had BMW engine in it, and no Italian cars . Who is unreliable now. Alfa Romeo kicking Your but there that everyone loves to hate?
Bentley is a British brand built in Britain, so qualifies as British, same goes for the Range Rover, they are owned by Tata, an Indian company, but they are designed and manufactured in Britain amongst oher countries, but Britain is it's natural parentage !
Not surprised not to see the Alfa Romeo Giulia. A wonderful car and very far from how unreliable it's considered to be. Destroyed by dumb confirmation biases, poor past reputation, and Alfa's own incompetence in marketing.
The throttle body issue only affected the E9x generation cars, with revised rod bearings the F series in general is far more reliable. Quite surprised to hear that the DCT gearbox caused it to be listed 2nd here given it's not considered a common fault amoungst owners compared to the former two issues and spun crank hubs on F series cars (typically tuned examples but these would be exempt from warrenty claims).
I don't need a wheelbarrow. I have a _"Missus."_ With a click of my fingers, and she can carry, or drag providing it gets to where I need it to go, a bag of cement. _Oh! Crap! Gotta go... She's coming up the stairs..._ 8-((...
I can hear the BMW fanboys crying, maybe now they'll finally stop bragging about their M3 and how good it is... Good for the car dealer maybe, you're just being scammed mate!
Would be better to do the same comparison but not based on the amount of money but in % of the price of the new car. A repair of 10K on a car worth 100k is better than 5K on a car worth 20K.
There’s a couple of shocking ones here… first off these prices for repairs are absolutely INSANE. I never heard any of these go that high. Second the Q7 and Porsche Cayenne are so hard to believe bc I had both of them. Ran the piss out of them and they never skipped a beat. The Cayenne needed a replacement O2 sensor out of nowhere but that set me back 80 bucks. That was it. About 200k miles for both. The F8X M3/M4 is also extremely shocking cause the only issue I know is the crank hub. Other than that, people love these cars and happily drive them around quite a bit.
Joshua, I agree with you about the M3. If you notice, the video mentioned the biggest issue with the M3 (which included both F8x and E9x) were the throttle bodies. This really means the issue was more specific to the E9x generation M3 as it was the one with individual throttle bodies. The turbocharged M3 does not have (neither does it require) individual throttle bodies. The F8x I’ve heard is very very reliable. I cannot say anything about the Audi or the Porsche as I don’t know much about them but have definitely heard that the Porsche is generally very reliable.
Exactly, the m3 was hard to believe aswell as i have a 2018 m4c and iv driven it more than 50k in 1 year and a half and havent had a single issue yet and none of the f8x owners i know. I thought these cars were one of the most reliable performance cars if held stock
I was surprised to see Mazda CX5 in the list since it's one of the most reliable car in the world but upon checking out the comments here I would agree cause it's the diesel turbocharge variant.. It's pretty problematic in Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand as well.
Had turbo fail on 2015 cx5 2.2d. Dealer said it was most common fault, thankfully replaced w/o charge even though manufacturer's warranty had expired. There was some wiggle room because it had Mazda main dealer service history.
@@oTheDucky89o the other reason for this is that it was mazdas first big foray into a heavy, turbocharged, 4x4 type car. Before this a lot of their dependability comes from small, light, naturally aspirated cars. Less weight on suspension etc = improved reliability
I've seen the same problem with a 2015 Mazda CX-5 2.2 Skyactiv-D and a 2017 CX-3 1.5 Skyactiv-D 105. Both had injector problems. But on the other hand I've never seen a Mazda with a gas engine that had a serious engine problem.
Are you thick. He litteraly explained its a combination of both in the vid. Outright reliability LR, BMW and Tesla are at the bottom with Audi and Merc just above them. The German cars are abysmal now.
@@Clavinovaman Build quality is a key substance of reliability? If built poor they wouldnt last. Lexus mastered it in the 90's yes there will be hicups as with anything in life but they fix it! not role it into the next model. Unless your confusing styling? The modern Audis & Mercs/BMW have fancy styling & powerful engines is why they still lead the market. If your buying german & you have deep pockets try Porsche otherwise its hit & miss as some others have reported on here. Long term its about servicing & preventative maintenance not just put fuel in & go. Certain people will soon come to their senses when we get squeezed even more with cost of living.
ME: "Damn, high end German cars are expensive. I know, I'll buy a used one with known problems on the cheap, buy a secondary insurance plan, wait six months or so, and voila - Awesome high end German performance car in perfect condition for a bargain." Insurance Company: "We have no way of detecting this, other than it's really strange how our customers like to buy high end German vehicles which somehow fail at a higher rate than cheaply made others. Must be a coincidence." ME: "Yep, total coincidence, thanks for that new M5 engine though. Oh, I'll be canceling my policy tomorrow, I just can't afford the rates."
Korean cars cost the most to fix. My mums 10 year old car needed what looked like a small amount of work to repair it, but parts were crazy money, car was still worth £7800. Repairs were £7600. She took the £7800 offer.
I've only owned a Toyota so I was surprised to learn a lot of other brands recommend double the time between changing oil. Maybe Toyota engineering isn't that much more reliable, they just recommended you change the oil at the right time
Pretty sure the reason other brands recommend changing less often is that there's no point changing the oil after 12 months since they'll just include it in the price of fixing it when it inevitably breaks after 18 months anyway 😆
@@martinsvensson6884 That's true, but modern oil shouldn't be getting to a point where viscosity due to age is an issue. It'd have to be totally knackered for that to be the case, well beyond any service interval.
A $1500 repair on a $100K luxury car isn't as bad for the consumer as a $1000 repair on a 15K budget car, this ranking just shows absolute cash flows (what the insurance company cares about), either that or cheap cars are all super reliable...
Cheap cars are more simple, so they have less to go wrong. It's certainly not uncommon for a 20 year old S Class or Jaguar XJ that is now worth $1500 to get a quote for over $10,000 in repairs!
YOOO WHERE IS THE LIST?? Imma do you a favor: 15. Tesla Model S 14. Ford Ranger 13. Audi A7 12. Mercedes S-Class 11. Peugeot RCZ 10. BMW M5 9. Mazda CX-5 (kinda hard to believe a japanese car is not reliable LOL) 8. Bentley Continental GT 7. Audi Q7 6. Porsche Cayenne 5. BMW X6 4. Porsche Panamera 3. Range Rover Sport 2. BMW M3 1. Range Rover
Definitely a bit surprising to see the M3 come in at #2 on the list! As a current E90 (and previous E46) owner it has been an admittedly surprising flawless ownership experience. I always assumed the F80 would have been even better - I only know of occasional crank hub failures. What is completely unsurprising is seeing JLR round out the remaining positions in top 3. I owned one JLR product for 6 months, which ended up being 4 months in the shop and 2 months on the road. If there ever was a brand that defined "surprisingly disappointing" it would be JLR.
I have a f80 and this report is trash. Gear box and throttle body ok... Yes, spinning the crank hub is expensive but that rarely happens especially if you do not mod the car. I drive mine hard and i know other owners that do and have no issues. The crank hub is also blown out of proportion so shops can sell/perform expensive parts and service.
@@jonb2437 I think the “faults” are mainly due to previous owners beating the sh!t out of their m3s. Seen lots of m3 owners just whip it on a daily basis
M3 variants has nothing to do with ordinary 3'rd series modes... They use different electroncs, different engines, different gearbox even... It is an entirely different car, put in a standard shell... So 3'rd series is one of the most reliable BMW lines, also the 4'th as they are practically the same... When you go to the 5'th series, the realibility drops, as it is a bigger, bulkier car, with more electronics... Now M3 and M5 as completely different cars do require a casual full engine maintenance on about 50000 km or so and occasional adiditional maintenance, as they are not meant to be an everyday car and are for people who don't really care about repairs cost... CarWow rightfully stated M3 and M5 and not the standard 3'rd or 5'th series... Practically every sport line, has reduced reliability and that is completely normal...
Yes, me too - I've had 8 BMWs over 20 years and they've all been fine. My current 530d doesn't even need servicing very often - it's cost me virtually nothing since I bought it. The reason is that this isn't a reliability survey - they've factored in repair cost....
They've extremely rare, that's why. All cars have problems. This survey factors in repair cost, so you're seeing the premium cars disproportionately represented.
That's like trying to convince someone to buy a Juke or Prius. Also at least in America SUVs especially body on frame are typically the cars that get the highest mileage lists. Ain't saying they won't have problems.
Once again it’s hard to beat a Acura/Honda & Lexus/Toyota vehicle. I’m a proud owner of a 2000 Honda Prelude, bought new in 8/29/2000 with 7 miles. Outside of oil/ filter schedule service, my total repair service cost has been about $1800.00 in 22 years of ownership. Currently 305,222 miles. My other vehicle is a Mdx a-spec 2020, which I totally love.
Bit weird having the price of repairs as the main criterion. Just because a car brand has more expensive parts and more expensive cost of repair doesn't make them more unreliable. Reliability should be measured mainly by how often something goes wrong and how important that thing is. If you want to include the cost, what should matter there is how expensive that is compared to other stuff that can go wrong on the very same car. Of course the list is going to be full of expensive cars but it's not really saying anything.
So, the only French entry in the list is a car that was built in Austria, with an engine whose German bits like to go wrong, and uses American turbochargers. And hasn't been on sale for 7 years. And is probably the only entry in the list that doesn't have a current model. Other than that...
I don't know about the other brands, but especially in the BMWs case, including the early models with later model years and even different chassis is always bound to cause some issues with the data. The fuel system issues with those early N63s and S63s were common yes, but i guarantee you that if you made a list of the current F90 and (whatever the X6 was), then you'd be harder pressed to find fuel system or hell even the aforementioned timing chain issues on them as well. Had my F10 535i been on this list (a 20114+ example) and been combined with an early model year, you could add fuel pump, solenoids, timing, and radiator fan to the list of expected issues that i would face, but since they updated the engine in 2014, those issues are squashed. See where i'm headed with this?
Thank you for that explanation. I was under the impression that BMWs were comparatively more reliable than the other luxury brands. So perhaps it is but only after 2014.... Would be nice to see a list or graph etc. showing the numbers by every year instead.... There's probably it somewhere just don't know where...
I guess the cx-5 issues don't relate to the 2.0 naturally aspirated. Mine has over 240k miles (386,000 km), and has never had an engine fault or needed anything more than regular maintenance (brakes, oil, tires). It's also a manual, which could potentially help reliability.
CARWOW sucks, because they failed to mention the fact, that the unreliable CX-5s are the 2.2 TURBO-DIESELs only ..... the SkyActiv-G 2.0 and -2.5 are indeed bulletproof.
Not surprised about the Range Rover, when we were looking for our current car we went to one prestige dealer near us (not a small place either) and they'd stopped selling them because one had an engine fault whilst under their initial 3 month warranty which necessitated a new engine and cost them £20k to fix it 😵
I remember someone telling me that if you want to own a Range Rover; you really need to buy two of them. One for regular use and the second for for spare parts.
Most problems are electrical and more and more new cars have hellishly complex electrical and computer systems. Failure of Business and Engineering schools.
I will call this 50% BS, cause Audi A7, Q7 and Cayenne, if they use the 3.0 TDI base engine, its the same. So all 3 cars should have the injectors fault, but only the A7 does. We need more data. How many A7 they have insured, and how many had injector problems.
i had two landrovers pass by my hands a few years back. BOTH blew their engines and it was like 30k pounds to put it right for each. i heard jaguars are just as bad (at least over here) and in general british cars are the worst. i also knew bmw sucked but what surprises me is the sheer number of models in this list. geez, even more reason to never buy one.
@@dontknowwhy186 lol, bad news. i went to london, ate fish and fries and got food poisoning. i'm not joking. my first meal there. so maybe not even that. also predicted a firetruck crash 10 seconds before it happened, just coming out of the subway from paris. i was walking down to the hotel with my sister, a firetruck blew by us and i said "that truck is going to crash". we settled down in the hotel, went back out for lunch and there it was, the firetruck crashed not a block away from where i called it. then the next day i was getting up from bed, sneezed and got a fkn hernia on my back that made me go through literal 5 years of pain, the first one being borderline unbearable. oh yeah, on the plus side, the charlie hebdo massacre happened the day left paris for london. at least that was a plus of sorts to miss that. booked my train tickets 10 months in advance and narrowly dodged the whole thing perfectly. went back right after the criminals were caught too, also by coincidence. paris pretty much died after that incident. anyway, i don't like london. cursed place.
I have to say I'm not shocked to see a few BMWs on the list. I definitely expected the F10 M5 on there for valves and turbo related issues and the E9X M3 on there for rod bearings and TBAs.....BUT THE LIST ONLY MENTIONED THE TBAs lol. Then the big shocker is looping the F8X M3/4 in there with the E9X. 2012-2019. REALLY. I'm an M4 owner so call me biased but this is the first M3/4 generation that most would consider "reliable". There are high-mileage tuned and modded F8Xs out there now without any issues. I have 98K miles on mine and the only thing I had to fix/replace was a leaking coolant tank. 50K miles of that I have been running BM3 stage 2 and downpipes. When it popped up at #2 I figured it was going to be a crankhub case but they said throttle bodies and transmission. LOL I have never heard of a single person with a throttle body issue on the F8Xs. The E9Xs have those issues all the time. I have heard of a few DCT issues between both generations but nothing common enough to ask about during a PPI. I have a group of roughly 90 M cars that get together locally and besides the brand new cars, the F8Xs are the only ones that are never down for maintenance, never smoking, never idling rough, never having window regulator issues, coolant leaks, or fuel issues. Seem like they looped the F8Xs in to E9X problems accidentally.
@@jeebus2121 literally lol. It sounds strange to say but out of the E90s, my E46 M3, and all other cars I’ve opened (now that I think about it), my M4 is by far the most reliable.
@@cullentayrien2187 it’s great. Especially if left stock but not bullet proof. Ironically 2 of my friends have blown 2 B58s. One guy was pushing 700hp though. That’ll do it if you’re doing it wrong. The other was from the previous owner. S58 is king right now.
I am just as surprised as an E90 M3 owner with zero issues after huge miles. They are more or less very reliable cars, you just need to keep up with regular oil changes and let them warm up properly (which is sound advice for keeping any car running well).
15. Tesla Model S 14. Ford Ranger 13. Audi A7 12. Mercedes S Class 11. Peugeot RCZ 10. BMW M5 9. Mazda CX5 8. Bentley Cont. GT 7. Audi Q7 6. Porsche Cayenne 5. BMW X6 4. Porsche Panamera 3. Range Rover Sport 2. BMW M3 1. Range Rover
In the states (especially Miami where I'm from) a lot of people buy these cars used as a status symbol. My first car was an E90 328. After the headaches, I decided to buy a new Kia. Not trying to impress anyone anymore lol.
It’s not even impressive unless you’re driving a newer, high- end model of some European brand. Every time I see the kids driving their little BMWs and Mercs, I simply think “poser”
I have E93..i use it only roof down for driving girls ,go to caffes and stuff ..not much km on it..becasue in every 2000 km something will fail,but fortunaly most important stuff and that is roof works perfectly ,no problems with it...but for regular driving i off course use other more relible (and more confortable) cars
When Tata first acquired JLR in 2008.. I said to myself if they can improve overall JLR quality,increase the space n introduce some premium hatches with smaller turbo powered engines... They have a winner at hand... But surprisingly they made them profitable without improving any of these... They sure did introduce new models n made Jag SUVs...but I guess marketing n fresh designs only last for so much time b4 PPL see the truth!
People always told me that expensive German cars are the most reliable... yes I am from Germany they told me also that Japanese cars have the worst built quality. Thats what marketing did to their understanding of cars
That was somewhat true in the 80s and 70s (ex. Diesel Mercedes with a manual transmission many of which are still on the road) but that definitely not true anymore, I was told if you want to be a great driver and mechanic buy German or a British car and if you want to be a professional driver or mechanic then only Italian cars are your best possible choice 😭😄, buy Japanese car only if you or your wife works as an accountant because even after 10 years you might never see service department only the maintenance, Japanese cars are somewhat dated 5 - 10 years behind in available technology but they just take their time to perfect the available one and that starts with quality, especially Toyota…
forget who owns it but WHERE IS IT BUILT and DESIGNED? Bentley is british just like JLR and Bentley, none of which have British owners. Is anyone seriously claiming that RollsRoyce is not a British car?
think I'll stick with my 2007 Honda Jazz (Fit) which is now touching 290k miles and still drives like a dream. In the 9 years I've owned it apart from routine servicing nothing has gone wrong with this thing ever. I reckon this car has saved me over 100 grand over the 9 years I've had it that i would have had to fork out in new cars and repairs etc etc etc on flashy german cars :)
I’d never expect a bmw M5 or M3 to be on this list my dads dad has an F90 2019 M5 and has gad 0 issues and my mum has an M3 and only has had to change engine cover because it some how cracked but it’s all good now
It's because they have very common, specific issues that pull the reliability rating right down. I'd be more concerned about buying a car with varied issues rather than a bmw with a couple of known common faults. Well as long as it's been sorted before I buy it of course.
The F-series M3 being grouped together with the E9x generation is a real disservice to the generational improvments made towards it, the throttle body issue only applies to the latter and rod bearings being one of the leading causes of engine failure with the E-series was also revised. Surprised to hear about the DCT gearbox failures dragging it down, it's usually considered quite reliable, the main problem you hear getting drummed up with the F-series is spun crank hubs.
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I admire Land Rover's consistency through the last two decades - always on the bottom reliability wise. Simply amazing achievement!
its fake news , french cars should all be top of the list , french cars and their owners are equally as unreliable and inept
Yep. Land Rover and Bentley also.
The amazing part is they're still in business, as a luxury brand, and making profit
What a reliable brand we love them for being consistent and not to mention expensive 👏 🤣
We have a saying here in Australia... If you want to get to the outback, take a Land Rover. If you want to get home, take a LandCruiser.
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You could be more precise about the CX-5, issues concerns the diesel version, as usual, petrol is very reliable
That's true!
Yes Mazdas are damn good cars
@@andrewbuckley3948 especially RX-7 type RS and RX500. U know a 1970 Mazda Car?
@@Has7DCT RX500 says hello.
That isn’t always the case
No Maserati?????? What is this
Statistics, not word of mouth.
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@@georgimihaylov5432 fr
I'll stick to my Rover 75 Tourer Auto 2003 Thanks !!
210k miles no major issues and very cheap to repair.
No repair has cost over £200.
The M47 BMW engine is good for half million miles.
With all the £1000's we've saved by not buying a new car we've been on some fantastic holidays 3 times a year 😀
Happy days ✅
FYI, in the US In the 1970's the cars you called barges were considered compacts
Toyota - Honda, Everyone applause.
Lol, Mercedes, BMW, AUDI, Porsche, TESLA, Bentley & what not.
In my country, salespeople keep making excuses to make European cars sell like saying that theyre unreliable because theyre advanced or because theyre not designed for the heat of tropical climate.
Regular cars have 10% of the features offered by luxury cars - a lot less things to break. And even those that are left - older generations, proven technologies, harder plastics :-) On a premium car you get the latest tech everywhere. Keep it while it's on manufacturer's warranty, get rid of it when warranty expires. They don't build them to last forever anymore, sadly.
BMW M3 with common gearbox issues, I wonder if drivers who owned these cars are most to blame for this particular issues
I'll keep driving my bicycle I guess...
Simply means Japanese cars are more available (less downtime) and cheap spare parts for when it goes wrong
We want a video of the most reliable!!! To follow up this video
I've got a m4 f82 for the last 8 years. Zero issue what so ever
As a Land Rover:Range rover technician, I can tell you that business has never been slow for the last 23 years. This list is spot on
How’s the Range Rover evoque reliability
@@esthetics4512 crap
😂😂😂
@@esthetics4512 worst out of all the models.
Yezzir..reporting from a garage in Nairobi...back to you in the studio.
As a fiat panda owner I can confirm this video is legit 🤣🤣
As a fiat koala owner I can’t agree more
Me too. I have two and they cost much less to buy than these cost to fix and serve without complaint. Nippy snd fun especially if not
The most shocking thing for me in this video is that warranty wise paid out. I had a terrible time getting them too pay up for my car when I had a warranty through them and when they agreed I couldn't find a garage too do the repairs because nobody wanted too deal with them. Even 3 of there own recommended garages turned me away as they said they didn't want too pay correct labour charges. I ended up paying for repairs myself.
Ye I've had issues with warranty wise too they straight up declined my warranty claim for a faulty transmission, never trust warranty wise period
I don’t know anyone who has ever gone back to Warranty Wise based on their experience of making perfectly valid claims that these cowboys tried to argue away
Weird carwow would even mention and kinda work with, at least on this video with a shady company like that...
Made me get annoyed every time Mat said warranty wise...
@@jonathanng138 for me i always shocked about those cars that having least reliable one.
@@MKRM27 yep. 2 year warranty could be all good.
Can we please get yearly updates of this. Would like to see how the new models of these cars do.
He would not be able to do that, from a single source, and what manufacturer, is going to tell him their own warranty costs. And, in the first 3 years, most vehicles don't have many problems, not covered by warranty. Stupid requests!
JD power do it yearly. Always tge same culprits driven by numpties and cisting the earth
Most reliable car and still under production is Lexus LS
Glad no toyota & honda involved
mass production.
Could you do a video with the most reliable aswell? Thanks 🤜🤛
there was about a year ago
It'll just be full of Toyota
@@TheKruxed kia actually
@@zane6045 no Toyota Lexus Honda all more reliable
@@zane6045 u can find this information online btw
MATT please do an update for the most reliable cars ... the last one is 2-3 years old ...
Maybe we already have... Watch this space 😉
@@carwow TERRIBLE CONTENT STICK TO DRAG RACES AND REVIEWS DISLIKED
@@manilove2pwn terrible comment stick to nothing disliked! 🤣
@@uleertel cry more please
@@MRHardRoller cry more please
"Alfa Romeos always break down, I can't believe you got one. You should have gone German..." Just goes to show how strong marketing can be.
NO ALFAS ON THE LIST. THE GERMANS ARE REALLY BAD,NOT EVEN FIAT OR MASERATI. THAT'S WHY I BUY ALFA MASERATI AND FIAT. NEVER A PROBLEM.
would say not alot of people own a Alfa Romeo and not many use as a daily drivr
Lonely sandwich why bring alfa up when its mostly german that go wrong .so keep buying your german barges you deserve them ha ha
@@fyasin4877 you would surprised how many people own an alfa..let's face it who would want to own German barges after that but let's face it you do have to be brain dead to buy German or self opinionated
@@fyasin4877 The point is people who suggests a german as if it were a japanese car are fanatics.
Would be great to see the difference between the older and newer generations that are lumped together to see if there's any improvement
Why would luxury brands improve if they know rich people will simply shrug off the repair bill? All they need to figure out is the amount customer will pay without complaining.
@@leejimFMSA actually certain versions of top class cars are better than previous or newer versions, things are added, changed or taken away that make a certain version no problem at all.
alfa 159 spotted
I think there has been with Range Rovers, from what I understand the newer models are much better than the older ones.
@@f-u-nkyf-u-ntime they had to improve them. Expensive cars with such high prestige should never have so many problems.
It also helps that when people buy them, they can afford to repair/look after them.
This episode was awesome : ) this is what we need keep manufacturers honest and doing their job properly. Making quality products that command a premium price make sure it’s top notch. Thanks car wow.
Something to take into account: notice how this list is mostly luxury brands / expensive models? Thats because people that can afford these cars are the ones taking extended warranty. The cheap / middle class cars aren't represented. Who wants extended warranty on a cheap car that, if it breaks down, is cheap to fix? Nobody. Somebody making boatloads of money doenst want the hassle of finding the cheap local mechanic, dealing with waiting times etc. They just want their m5 fixed, ASAP.
This is very true
True, but also cars like these are too complicated and poorly engineered from the outset leading to difficult repairs and unreliability. Although the dumb complexity applies to cheaper cars too. There should be legislation in place to make cars simpler and less complicated, the irony is it is dumb emissions legislation that make them expensive and unreliable in some areas
@@blow0me lol all of them aren't poorly engineered...did u see one Lambo/Ferrari on this list?
@@Slainself and did you listen to how the data was compiled ? clearly not. That is exactly why there are no such vehicles on this list.
Also a lot of cheaper brands have better warranties. (Hyundai) with one of the best warranties on the market.
Hoping to see a 'most reliable' list as well. Dreadful to see all those 'premium' cars on there. Had my Skoda Yeti for 10 years and 85,000 miles. Not a single issue. Wish I hadn't sold it for my unreliable BMW X1.
Toyota better be among the top. My father had one that went 490k kilometres. He bought it used and drove quite a bit and the only repair he did was a timing belt I believe
Sounds fun
If I had a Skoda Yeti I’d not want it to last 10 years!
@@MKRM27 Skoda Yeti's reliabilty also worse than even Subaru 360 honestly.
@@grozaphy Toyota and Subaru had some of the most unreliable cars ever.
Well just ended watching top gear destroying a indistructable Toyota I've seen and now here we go again
Toyoya are for poors and terrorists
They really did blow a building to destroy it 😂
this fellow get paid to make these baised video chill
@@nidalgm2718 like using nuclear missile.
@@sagaryoutube3591 everyone knows if you want to go somewhere you take a Land Rover, but if you want to come back, you do it in a Hilux
If you want reliable cars, buy Japanese.
They are too expensive, and uncomfortable. Except Lexus.
8:12 "first British car on the list " so I guess the Bentley is Indian.
It's German.
@@Sinna94 is it?
@@johannpena9602 Bentley is owned by VW.
VW owns it
loll no matter who owns the brand it will forever be a british
just like volvo isn't chinese because chinese company owns it it will forever be a swedish
These prices quoted to fix these issues are absolutely disgusting, just goes to show how insurance works. Taking a lot of these issues to a decent local mechanic would no doubt cost a lot less.
Sometimes to fix those cars u need about $50000.
@@purwantiallan5089 haha
Not always.
@@deansmits006 yes always hence they are on this list.. you not paying attention or what?
Now extend this thinking to healthcare….
For the Mazda CX-5, it would be nice to mention that these issues appear only on diesel engines. The petrol ones are rock solid.
Diesel CX5s can be reliable too, I've had mine for 8 years with no problems. I was surprised to see it in this video.
@@baldyhead it might be the problem in lower latitude and worse diesel quality in Taiwan, Thailand and Malaysia. In Europe and Japan not nearly as problematic. I guess it's because of better diesel quality and colder and drier climate. In Taiwan the 2.2D engine can suffer blown head gasket causing coolant to spray over the engine, which will require an engine replacement after the coolant leak. Fortunately Taiwan Mazda offer lifetime warranty for the diesel engine on CX-5 and Mazda6. In Japan most CX-5 were diesel variant, from by observation during my Japan trip.
It’s not the parts that cost it’s the ridiculous labour charges from dealers, great video as always matt!
Warranty wise will not pay for dealer to repair the car. They typically only allow £25 labour charge and I believe £50 on platinum package appon request and extra charges.
With porches reading charging £150 for labour.
Well, sometimes it is understandable. Especially supercars, where simple repairs need the entire outer frame to be removed
That is the exact problem with most of these cars, they were way way over complicated. And no consideration was taken for repair.
Any dealer has a lot of mouths to feed plus they have to make a little profit. You want to pay at least 50% more, go to a dealer. Find an independent mechanic
and you'll save. It's a challenge to find a good honest mechanic.
The design of the internals contributes significantly to labour. If a lot of disassembly is required to fix an otherwise trivial issue, the labour costs will explode regardless of how much brand premium is slapped on top.
If the 2012 and newer M5 is on this list then the 2005 to 2010 E60 M5 must hold their All-Time number 1 unreliability rating lol
True true!!!
have you owned one or just read about those in internet?
Abolsutely. The V10 was a tough one to keep running right but the 6 speed models were a bit better. The e39 was still the M5 to own for reliability.
I don’t think so. Just look at channel M539 restorations and search for M5 E60 there
@@aussie2uGA the E39 M5 is probably the best looking M5 ever
This list here takes the price of the repair into account, which obviously leads to more luxury brands in the top places, they are produced in lesser numbers and use more expensive parts, so the repair is more expensive.
A much better metric to measure how reliable a car (atleast what the most people mean when talking about reliability) is to look at how often / how long a car model had to visit a workshop on average.
I think measuring the average time a certain car model spend in a workshop is far more useful to figure out how reliable a car is. If they wouldn't have used this "minimum of 100 cars" - requirement in this survey, the whole list would be full of super- and hypercars, because changing tyres on a bugatti will cost more than buying a new toyota. Your 10k car can break down 20 times and this list would still say it's more reliable than a hypercar which has to do a single repair.
In my opinion the way they measured reliability here is not really useful.
Which doesn't mean that I think the luxury brands wouldn't still be on top, but I think it's mainly about the higher complexity of luxury cars and not the build quality. When there is more tech and stuff in your car, then there is more stuff to break.
Too true.
Right that’s like ppl be comparing the reliability of a Honda Civic to a bmw 7 series like it doesn’t have 80% of the shit the bmw has 😂
それただの言い訳じゃない？
You’re right, but even time spent being repaired can’t be used as a gauge because most shops are under staffed and can’t find people to work, which in turn takes longer to repair. At least that’s how it is in the US right now.
@@user-s45c No, the way they tested it just hasn't anything to do with reliability. What they measured is a part of the ownership cost (gas and insurance excluded) and they found out (who could have guessed it), that expensive cars are more expensive to keep running.
A great addition to this list would be which engine, or at least fuel the unreliable car has.
The Mazda CX-5 for instance, turbo issue which indicates that the diesel's are unreliable seeing as the Skyactiv G engine doesn't have a turbo (Except the 2.5 in a few markets).
Yeah i was shocked to see the Mazda here, until he mentioned the turbo. I'm on a lot of Mazda groups and the only thing I hear people complain about is the diesel turbo.
Yep, I have to agree that Mazda's diesel engine is unreliable, the coolant may spray out in higher mileage, too low compression causes DPF to fail and oil level rising easily.
I have had a Mazda 2 skyactiv D (1.5 diesel turbo). In 7 yrs only had: an O2 sensor go wrong (fixed for free outside of warranty); bumps stops for rear shocks degraded at 7 yrs; on my 2nd new battery - they last 3 yrs.
As for CX-5s I have heard of head gasket issues, ut normally fixed for free and warranty extended.
@@Kanazawa1997 Prey tell how low compression effects the DPF? Coolant sprays out of where? Never heard of oil dilution in any diesel ever.
@@csjrogerson2377 I don't know about Mazda, but the Discovery Sport and Evoque suffer from this problem. Apparently the DPF is too far away from the manifold due to design issues, such that cleaning requires the engine management to inject a lot of extra diesel into the cylinders in order to raise DPF temeratures sufficiently. Some of this finds its way past the pistons and into the oil. you get a very early service light on and it requires an oil change.
The service manager at my local JLR dealer is “Bob”. Bob and I got to know each other very well in the 9 months I owned my 2021 Land Rover Discovery. I had a 36 month lease - dealer let me walk away. Never had so many electrical issues in a car in my life. Great ride, lovely interior. Guess I was lucky that COVID made the value invert and they were able to resell. BTW, my check engine light first lit up after only ten days of ownership! The topper was the hatch opening on its own. That’s a party trick for sure.
Discovery is the among them. I always feel sorry for the owners that had to keep coming back.
Nothing new there. I personally would not touch a Land Rover product with numerous bargepoles fastened together. Depending on the size of 4x4 you want/need, either Toyota, or the likes of Hyundai/Kia can meet your needs. Ok, they don't have the same social clout at a wine & cheese party, or a grouse shoot, but who the hell needs his vehicle to be in the workshop being fixed every few weeks? A friend of mine bought a new Kia Sorrento (which as you may know, is RR sized) and has covered 80k miles in it in 4 years or so. Not a single thing has gone wrong, and all it has required has been regular servicing. He has a new one on order. And I'm guessing he *doesn't* know the service manager's name at his local Kia dealer.....My friend with the Sorrento also mentioned that one particular Kia he was told about, developed a gearbox fault with just a few months of the original manufacturer's warranty left. They fitted a new gearbox without so much as a quibble.....
I switched to Kia Sportage from Audi A7 55TFSI, that was a good looking car, but oh boy those issues were driving me mad, the active rear spoiler worked for 2 days since new plus numerous stupid errors on my dash, Kia zero issues whatsoever 😅
Well it fits its brand name,》》 to discover something, a discovery journey..😊
A 3 year lease ffs all this 36 months crap honest to christ 🙄
Please do a dragrace with all of these cars, and then at the end instead of the brake test, do the break test. AKA; go and see which one breaks in the shortest distance🤣
Most people spell brake as break anyway!
You're a psychopath 💀
that would be interesting.
@@raftonpounder6696 yep. And also about slalom time challenge.
@@mulyomaha5112 slalom time challenge could be cool.
No Jaguar ? Weird
Think my Cupra Formentor should be up there. Couldn’t have been more excited when I ordered one, I’ve had nothing but issues and faults the last year since taking delivery 😂
Which engine option did you pick? It really depends on it
Well, the COVID production quality is really sub-par. It's better to wait until full supply chains are back, otherwise it's just lottery.
That’s your own fault. You bought a brand nobody hardly would buy
@@Has7DCT VTEC Type 2?
@@AkarZaephyr yep. Just plain draw.
The Diesel version is probably to blame. Here in the US and Canada the CX5 have a pretty good reliability score. The Diesel model is pretty inexistent.
Yep, the Japanese don't do Diesel.
It's why they went Hybrid.
Yeah ive never heard of petrol CX5s having any issues...
@@Driftuner ya me too, we have the 2.5 liter N/A, that engine is pretty bulletproof and the 2.5 turbo. The turbo seem to be pretty reliable to because Mazda use it in pretty much every car they make except the Miata/MX5 and I never heard anything bad about it.
Yep. I have the mazda 6 and cx5. Both of them haven't gave me any issues,except for the infotainment system.
@@shrimperlincs3395 they do provide in Asian markets
I’ve got a discovery sport, love the styling, but can’t handle the reliability, going back to Lexus.
Lexus LX specifically 450d. A very reliable machine
Good choice
@@Has7DCT LFA, RX500, and Shelby GT350 all also very reliable.
@@jesukxd8494 RX500?
@@Has7DCT what a nasty boring Toyota? That handles like a shopping cart . A poor mans wannabe Mercedes.
I owned a f82 m4 & put 106k miles on it.
Zero issues & was stage 2+ BM3
Must have got lucky but was serviced every 5k miles / 6 months.
Driven how it was meant to be with lots of road trips around Ireland :)
I also had a e92 m3 for the past 9 years (sadly it got stolen), 76k km no engine mods, exhaust and track mods (brakes, suspension, seats, etc) and I would track the car about 4 times a year, zero issues, but I also serviced the car before and after each track day. It mattered alot how the driver threated the car (warmups, cool downs, service etc) I knew of a e92 who managed to damage it's rodbearings at 13k km and it was 100% the driversfault, he was driving like a barbarian.
I think the Ford Ranger that cost over £13k to fix might have been mine. Not only did it have a replacement engine after only 9k miles we also lost the use of it for... 5 months (commercial pickup truck registered to my business used daily for deliveries replaced with a focus courtesy car 🤣) whilst they tried to work out what was wrong with it, in the end they couldn't so replaced the engine and some other associated bits and pieces.
😂😂😂😂
No Jaguars ?!?!? I'm surprised. They must have improved greatly
Jaguars having awful reliability is a myth that stems out of lucas electronics in the 70s and 80s. Sure, they're not a Toyota but they're not really any better or worse than their german counterparts, as shown by this list.
Not enough were sold
My dads had 6 Jag's over the past 19 years and none of them have ever gone wrong. S-Type, X-Type, XF, XF S, F-Pace and currently with an I-Pace.
@@Lukaz0r yeah my dad's had two jags and neither of them have had any major failings beyond what my mums much newer vw has also had. And an XJ is a lot more complicated than an up!
@@Ewannj I can only speak from experience, I have had 2 Jaguars, an XK and an XK8. They were both shockingly unreliable and very expensive to repair. The dealers were also poor. Like I said, it is only my experience, but I wouldn’t ever by Jaguar again. This is tempting fate, we have had a Maxda CX5 diesel from new … not had a spot of bother from it 7 years in.
WOW.
Look at this. How truthful at least. 1 French car on the list that had issues cause it had BMW engine in it, and no Italian cars .
Who is unreliable now.
Alfa Romeo kicking Your but there that everyone loves to hate?
More like no one buys an extended warranty for a modern Alfa 😂
"3rd place goes to the first British car on the list, a Range Rover Sport"
Completely forgets the Bentley.
That’s German now.
The Range Rover is Chinese tho.
Bentley is a British brand built in Britain, so qualifies as British, same goes for the Range Rover, they are owned by Tata, an Indian company, but they are designed and manufactured in Britain amongst oher countries, but Britain is it's natural parentage !
I dont think North America have Diesel Mazda CX5 . The Gasoline one we have here is One of the Reliable Cars that hold resale Value very well
The diesel is a troublesome engine. The petrols are awesome.
Not surprised not to see the Alfa Romeo Giulia. A wonderful car and very far from how unreliable it's considered to be. Destroyed by dumb confirmation biases, poor past reputation, and Alfa's own incompetence in marketing.
No mention of Volkswagen? I doubt the credibility of this survey. 🤣
I swear the BMW m3 was the most reliable sports car back then. Even top gear confirms it 😂
The throttle body issue only affected the E9x generation cars, with revised rod bearings the F series in general is far more reliable. Quite surprised to hear that the DCT gearbox caused it to be listed 2nd here given it's not considered a common fault amoungst owners compared to the former two issues and spun crank hubs on F series cars (typically tuned examples but these would be exempt from warrenty claims).
Look inside the cars. There you can find the biggest problem behind the steering wheel.
@@FNFleExZ exactly hahaha yobs with no mechanical sympathy on finance deals they can't afford anyway are what destroy these cars
@@bwdrives Yeah, haha the typical buyer.
@@FNFleExZ yep. The steering wheel is quite heavy.
As someone who worked in vehicle recovery for many years I can tell you we were forever picking up Mercedes and bmws.
We all know Wheelbarrow is the most reliable vehicle. 🔥
yeah i've got 5 million miles on mine
yeah with much better luggage space than these all shits
just the problem is software is little laggy
I don't need a wheelbarrow. I have a _"Missus."_ With a click of my fingers, and she can carry, or drag providing it gets to where I need it to go, a bag of cement.
_Oh! Crap! Gotta go... She's coming up the stairs..._ 8-((...
I can hear the BMW fanboys crying, maybe now they'll finally stop bragging about their M3 and how good it is...
Good for the car dealer maybe, you're just being scammed mate!
Would be better to do the same comparison but not based on the amount of money but in % of the price of the new car. A repair of 10K on a car worth 100k is better than 5K on a car worth 20K.
There’s a couple of shocking ones here… first off these prices for repairs are absolutely INSANE. I never heard any of these go that high. Second the Q7 and Porsche Cayenne are so hard to believe bc I had both of them. Ran the piss out of them and they never skipped a beat. The Cayenne needed a replacement O2 sensor out of nowhere but that set me back 80 bucks. That was it. About 200k miles for both. The F8X M3/M4 is also extremely shocking cause the only issue I know is the crank hub. Other than that, people love these cars and happily drive them around quite a bit.
Maybe those cars don't like gentle driving since it may gum up the works.
Joshua, I agree with you about the M3. If you notice, the video mentioned the biggest issue with the M3 (which included both F8x and E9x) were the throttle bodies. This really means the issue was more specific to the E9x generation M3 as it was the one with individual throttle bodies. The turbocharged M3 does not have (neither does it require) individual throttle bodies. The F8x I’ve heard is very very reliable. I cannot say anything about the Audi or the Porsche as I don’t know much about them but have definitely heard that the Porsche is generally very reliable.
@@rushi83 yeah those m3's sucked
Exactly, the m3 was hard to believe aswell as i have a 2018 m4c and iv driven it more than 50k in 1 year and a half and havent had a single issue yet and none of the f8x owners i know. I thought these cars were one of the most reliable performance cars if held stock
Those repair prices are cheap. I own a 911 NOTHING is cheap
I was surprised to see Mazda CX5 in the list since it's one of the most reliable car in the world but upon checking out the comments here I would agree cause it's the diesel turbocharge variant.. It's pretty problematic in Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand as well.
Exactly. The N/A petrol models are rock solid.
Had turbo fail on 2015 cx5 2.2d. Dealer said it was most common fault, thankfully replaced w/o charge even though manufacturer's warranty had expired. There was some wiggle room because it had Mazda main dealer service history.
@@seanfinlay7393 in south east asia, the common problem is also the 2.2D where coolant leak and it sprays around the whole engine..making a big mess.
@@oTheDucky89o the other reason for this is that it was mazdas first big foray into a heavy, turbocharged, 4x4 type car. Before this a lot of their dependability comes from small, light, naturally aspirated cars. Less weight on suspension etc = improved reliability
I've seen the same problem with a 2015 Mazda CX-5 2.2 Skyactiv-D and a 2017 CX-3 1.5 Skyactiv-D 105.
Both had injector problems. But on the other hand I've never seen a Mazda with a gas engine that had a serious engine problem.
thats so weird. i've had a 2016 mazda cx 5 for like 4 years and i've literally never had a problem with it
Seems like a list of "most expensive to repair" more than "least reliable"
Yep. Even RX500 price to repair sometimes can go $100000.
💯that’s what I’m seeing 2
Are you thick. He litteraly explained its a combination of both in the vid. Outright reliability LR, BMW and Tesla are at the bottom with Audi and Merc just above them. The German cars are abysmal now.
Sounds like it … the W221 S Class isn’t unreliable, but it’s expensive to repair IF it breaks.
@@deang7834 agreed that’s why service A and B aren’t to be skipped
Seem like the more expensive a car is, the less reliable it is. How odd
More to go wrong I suppose.
Laughs in Lexus
It's because the expensive cars often push the limit on bleeding edge tech. Bleeding edge for being put in an automobile anyway
@@princekatana8792 Lexus on top!
Presumeably, people also won’t bother buying warranty for a cheap car. Hence, these might not feature in this analysis
The reason I'll only drive Lexus.
German 'quality' is just a myth!
Even an old Lexus is better than this modern junk
Hit and miss. Have to do your homework.
Build quality and reliability are two different things.
The problem with german cars sits behind the steering wheel. (Thats why you should never buy a used white BMW)
@@Clavinovaman Build quality is a key substance of reliability? If built poor they wouldnt last. Lexus mastered it in the 90's yes there will be hicups as with anything in life but they fix it! not role it into the next model.
Unless your confusing styling? The modern Audis & Mercs/BMW have fancy styling & powerful engines is why they still lead the market.
If your buying german & you have deep pockets try Porsche otherwise its hit & miss as some others have reported on here. Long term its about servicing & preventative maintenance not just put fuel in & go.
Certain people will soon come to their senses when we get squeezed even more with cost of living.
It’s amazing to see most cars on this list are so called luxurious and expensive cars😂
ME: "Damn, high end German cars are expensive. I know, I'll buy a used one with known problems on the cheap, buy a secondary insurance plan, wait six months or so, and voila - Awesome high end German performance car in perfect condition for a bargain."
Insurance Company: "We have no way of detecting this, other than it's really strange how our customers like to buy high end German vehicles which somehow fail at a higher rate than cheaply made others. Must be a coincidence."
ME: "Yep, total coincidence, thanks for that new M5 engine though. Oh, I'll be canceling my policy tomorrow, I just can't afford the rates."
And people have the stigmatism not buying the Alfa Romero because it’s unreliable smh, skeptics don’t deserve such a great car.
Korean cars cost the most to fix. My mums 10 year old car needed what looked like a small amount of work to repair it, but parts were crazy money, car was still worth £7800. Repairs were £7600. She took the £7800 offer.
I've only owned a Toyota so I was surprised to learn a lot of other brands recommend double the time between changing oil. Maybe Toyota engineering isn't that much more reliable, they just recommended you change the oil at the right time
Pretty sure the reason other brands recommend changing less often is that there's no point changing the oil after 12 months since they'll just include it in the price of fixing it when it inevitably breaks after 18 months anyway 😆
@@ApothecaryTerry Might be because Toyotas have belts... many German cars have chains. They will last longer and can take more abuse.
@@martinsvensson6884 Belts don't affect oil changes.
@@ApothecaryTerry But oil changes effects belts. You dont want increased friction from bad oil with those.
@@martinsvensson6884 That's true, but modern oil shouldn't be getting to a point where viscosity due to age is an issue. It'd have to be totally knackered for that to be the case, well beyond any service interval.
A $1500 repair on a $100K luxury car isn't as bad for the consumer as a $1000 repair on a 15K budget car, this ranking just shows absolute cash flows (what the insurance company cares about), either that or cheap cars are all super reliable...
Cheap cars are more simple, so they have less to go wrong. It's certainly not uncommon for a 20 year old S Class or Jaguar XJ that is now worth $1500 to get a quote for over $10,000 in repairs!
YOOO WHERE IS THE LIST?? Imma do you a favor:
15. Tesla Model S
14. Ford Ranger
13. Audi A7
12. Mercedes S-Class
11. Peugeot RCZ
10. BMW M5
9. Mazda CX-5 (kinda hard to believe a japanese car is not reliable LOL)
8. Bentley Continental GT
7. Audi Q7
6. Porsche Cayenne
5. BMW X6
4. Porsche Panamera
3. Range Rover Sport
2. BMW M3
1. Range Rover
Definitely a bit surprising to see the M3 come in at #2 on the list! As a current E90 (and previous E46) owner it has been an admittedly surprising flawless ownership experience. I always assumed the F80 would have been even better - I only know of occasional crank hub failures.
What is completely unsurprising is seeing JLR round out the remaining positions in top 3. I owned one JLR product for 6 months, which ended up being 4 months in the shop and 2 months on the road. If there ever was a brand that defined "surprisingly disappointing" it would be JLR.
I have a f80 and this report is trash. Gear box and throttle body ok...
Yes, spinning the crank hub is expensive but that rarely happens especially if you do not mod the car. I drive mine hard and i know other owners that do and have no issues. The crank hub is also blown out of proportion so shops can sell/perform expensive parts and service.
@@jonb2437 I think the “faults” are mainly due to previous owners beating the sh!t out of their m3s. Seen lots of m3 owners just whip it on a daily basis
M3 variants has nothing to do with ordinary 3'rd series modes... They use different electroncs, different engines, different gearbox even... It is an entirely different car, put in a standard shell... So 3'rd series is one of the most reliable BMW lines, also the 4'th as they are practically the same... When you go to the 5'th series, the realibility drops, as it is a bigger, bulkier car, with more electronics... Now M3 and M5 as completely different cars do require a casual full engine maintenance on about 50000 km or so and occasional adiditional maintenance, as they are not meant to be an everyday car and are for people who don't really care about repairs cost... CarWow rightfully stated M3 and M5 and not the standard 3'rd or 5'th series... Practically every sport line, has reduced reliability and that is completely normal...
Yes, me too - I've had 8 BMWs over 20 years and they've all been fine. My current 530d doesn't even need servicing very often - it's cost me virtually nothing since I bought it. The reason is that this isn't a reliability survey - they've factored in repair cost....
@@Habibi_exe I beat the shit outta my e92 and F80. They are meant for that. For the most part, both my cars are in great condition.
It impresses me how manufacturers keep letting these issues happen 🙃
Money money money
@@hennynicca gotta improve those margins 🤑🤑🤑
They've extremely rare, that's why. All cars have problems. This survey factors in repair cost, so you're seeing the premium cars disproportionately represented.
money through parts… as you know gone are the days when cars used to do 300k miles…
Seems that most of the SUV's have problems, hopefully we bring back wagons and sedans and coupes.
I'd prefer that too but people go for SUVs these days.
@@mikeh2006 yep. SUV and electrics like Nissan LEAF.
That's like trying to convince someone to buy a Juke or Prius.
Also at least in America SUVs especially body on frame are typically the cars that get the highest mileage lists. Ain't saying they won't have problems.
And minivans
Made in Germany🙈💔
The only thing left after Made in Germany is overprice.
Once again it’s hard to beat a Acura/Honda & Lexus/Toyota vehicle. I’m a proud owner of a 2000 Honda Prelude, bought new in 8/29/2000 with 7 miles. Outside of oil/ filter schedule service, my total repair service cost has been about $1800.00 in 22 years of ownership. Currently 305,222 miles. My other vehicle is a Mdx a-spec 2020, which I totally love.
What about Mitsubishi?
Bit weird having the price of repairs as the main criterion. Just because a car brand has more expensive parts and more expensive cost of repair doesn't make them more unreliable. Reliability should be measured mainly by how often something goes wrong and how important that thing is. If you want to include the cost, what should matter there is how expensive that is compared to other stuff that can go wrong on the very same car. Of course the list is going to be full of expensive cars but it's not really saying anything.
@Fifteen15 What's your opinion on cheese
@Fifteen15 Get a proper job
And another important factor is the driver. But most of the cars shown, get drivin really hard compared to a toyota yaris (not gr).
@@FNFleExZ Yes exactly. Very good point well made.
They did actually include the probability of the cars breaking down
So, the only French entry in the list is a car that was built in Austria, with an engine whose German bits like to go wrong, and uses American turbochargers. And hasn't been on sale for 7 years. And is probably the only entry in the list that doesn't have a current model. Other than that...
Well, it seems they stopped making Alfas
Owning an electric car in Europe is quite reliable... I can't imagine how it would be like to own one here in Africa.. Expecially Kenya 😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣....So so so funny
Do you have electricity in Kenya?
@@fasthracing no, only usa has electricity
@@fasthracing no, we watch TH-cam via smoke signals.
@@fasthracing I'm from South Africa, what on earth is electricity?
"Only people who didn't come from Instagram and TikTok are worthy of liking this.."
Im just subd fore 3 jears
I don't know about the other brands, but especially in the BMWs case, including the early models with later model years and even different chassis is always bound to cause some issues with the data.
The fuel system issues with those early N63s and S63s were common yes, but i guarantee you that if you made a list of the current F90 and (whatever the X6 was), then you'd be harder pressed to find fuel system or hell even the aforementioned timing chain issues on them as well.
Had my F10 535i been on this list (a 20114+ example) and been combined with an early model year, you could add fuel pump, solenoids, timing, and radiator fan to the list of expected issues that i would face, but since they updated the engine in 2014, those issues are squashed. See where i'm headed with this?
are the 2022 BMW X4 M40I reliable?
Thank you for that explanation. I was under the impression that BMWs were comparatively more reliable than the other luxury brands. So perhaps it is but only after 2014....
Would be nice to see a list or graph etc. showing the numbers by every year instead.... There's probably it somewhere just don't know where...
@@Juhoty.x9 100%. B58 engines (in any BMW _40i) are extremely reliable
@@yomansam4689 thanx 😀😀
I guess the cx-5 issues don't relate to the 2.0 naturally aspirated. Mine has over 240k miles (386,000 km), and has never had an engine fault or needed anything more than regular maintenance (brakes, oil, tires). It's also a manual, which could potentially help reliability.
They clearly stated mostly turbocharger issues so that obviously excludes the NA engines.
CARWOW sucks, because they failed to mention the fact, that the unreliable CX-5s are the 2.2 TURBO-DIESELs only ..... the SkyActiv-G 2.0 and -2.5 are indeed bulletproof.
Not surprised about the Range Rover, when we were looking for our current car we went to one prestige dealer near us (not a small place either) and they'd stopped selling them because one had an engine fault whilst under their initial 3 month warranty which necessitated a new engine and cost them £20k to fix it 😵
I remember someone telling me that if you want to own a Range Rover; you really need to buy two of them.
One for regular use and the second for for spare parts.
Most problems are electrical and more and more new cars have hellishly complex electrical and computer systems. Failure of Business and Engineering schools.
I find just unacceptable that most European premium brands have such a low reliability score.
Thats the truth German Cars are very unreliable
Because nobhead fanboys keep coming back to them
Not all?
I will call this 50% BS, cause Audi A7, Q7 and Cayenne, if they use the 3.0 TDI base engine, its the same. So all 3 cars should have the injectors fault, but only the A7 does. We need more data. How many A7 they have insured, and how many had injector problems.
Yeah exactly, same for the A6. Amd the quoted prices are insane, if you get them to their dealers
The 3.0 tdi vag lump is a joke engine it's as unreliable as it gets🤣 get real man
Ah yes, Bmw, never blows up
i had two landrovers pass by my hands a few years back. BOTH blew their engines and it was like 30k pounds to put it right for each.
i heard jaguars are just as bad (at least over here) and in general british cars are the worst. i also knew bmw sucked but what surprises me is the sheer number of models in this list. geez, even more reason to never buy one.
It's so sad that Britain is no good for anything other than some fish and chips
@@dontknowwhy186 😆
@@dontknowwhy186 and their women
Believe in Scotty Kilmer and CarWizard advice: you will be fine with a Lexus, Honda or a Toyota.
@@dontknowwhy186 lol, bad news. i went to london, ate fish and fries and got food poisoning. i'm not joking. my first meal there.
so maybe not even that.
also predicted a firetruck crash 10 seconds before it happened, just coming out of the subway from paris. i was walking down to the hotel with my sister, a firetruck blew by us and i said "that truck is going to crash". we settled down in the hotel, went back out for lunch and there it was, the firetruck crashed not a block away from where i called it.
then the next day i was getting up from bed, sneezed and got a fkn hernia on my back that made me go through literal 5 years of pain, the first one being borderline unbearable.
oh yeah, on the plus side, the charlie hebdo massacre happened the day left paris for london. at least that was a plus of sorts to miss that. booked my train tickets 10 months in advance and narrowly dodged the whole thing perfectly. went back right after the criminals were caught too, also by coincidence. paris pretty much died after that incident.
anyway, i don't like london. cursed place.
I have to say I'm not shocked to see a few BMWs on the list. I definitely expected the F10 M5 on there for valves and turbo related issues and the E9X M3 on there for rod bearings and TBAs.....BUT THE LIST ONLY MENTIONED THE TBAs lol. Then the big shocker is looping the F8X M3/4 in there with the E9X. 2012-2019. REALLY. I'm an M4 owner so call me biased but this is the first M3/4 generation that most would consider "reliable". There are high-mileage tuned and modded F8Xs out there now without any issues. I have 98K miles on mine and the only thing I had to fix/replace was a leaking coolant tank. 50K miles of that I have been running BM3 stage 2 and downpipes. When it popped up at #2 I figured it was going to be a crankhub case but they said throttle bodies and transmission. LOL I have never heard of a single person with a throttle body issue on the F8Xs. The E9Xs have those issues all the time. I have heard of a few DCT issues between both generations but nothing common enough to ask about during a PPI. I have a group of roughly 90 M cars that get together locally and besides the brand new cars, the F8Xs are the only ones that are never down for maintenance, never smoking, never idling rough, never having window regulator issues, coolant leaks, or fuel issues. Seem like they looped the F8Xs in to E9X problems accidentally.
Same here. The F80 M3 is hands down the most reliable car I've ever had. In 36k miles (of 57k total), not one thing has gone wrong.
B58 is a bullet proof motor
@@jeebus2121 literally lol. It sounds strange to say but out of the E90s, my E46 M3, and all other cars I’ve opened (now that I think about it), my M4 is by far the most reliable.
@@cullentayrien2187 it’s great. Especially if left stock but not bullet proof. Ironically 2 of my friends have blown 2 B58s. One guy was pushing 700hp though. That’ll do it if you’re doing it wrong. The other was from the previous owner. S58 is king right now.
I am just as surprised as an E90 M3 owner with zero issues after huge miles. They are more or less very reliable cars, you just need to keep up with regular oil changes and let them warm up properly (which is sound advice for keeping any car running well).
It's true that the Range Rover is very very very cool, but it has a lot of glitches...
Yes its true
Still a great car/status symbol though. thats why theyre still one of the top selling luxury suvs
15. Tesla Model S
14. Ford Ranger
13. Audi A7
12. Mercedes S Class
11. Peugeot RCZ
10. BMW M5
9. Mazda CX5
8. Bentley Cont. GT
7. Audi Q7
6. Porsche Cayenne
5. BMW X6
4. Porsche Panamera
3. Range Rover Sport
2. BMW M3
1. Range Rover
In the states (especially Miami where I'm from) a lot of people buy these cars used as a status symbol. My first car was an E90 328. After the headaches, I decided to buy a new Kia. Not trying to impress anyone anymore lol.
It’s not even impressive unless you’re driving a newer, high- end model of some European brand. Every time I see the kids driving their little BMWs and Mercs, I simply think “poser”
I have E93..i use it only roof down for driving girls ,go to caffes and stuff ..not much km on it..becasue in every 2000 km something will fail,but fortunaly most important stuff and that is roof works perfectly ,no problems with it...but for regular driving i off course use other more relible (and more confortable) cars
When Tata first acquired JLR in 2008..
I said to myself if they can improve overall JLR quality,increase the space n introduce some premium hatches with smaller turbo powered engines...
They have a winner at hand...
But surprisingly they made them profitable without improving any of these...
They sure did introduce new models n made Jag SUVs...but
I guess marketing n fresh designs only last for so much time b4 PPL see the truth!
There is only one thing that unites the entire world: the reliability of the Japanese cars and the unreliability of the Germans.
Actually, the car manufacturers make more money from parts than from the actual cars. That's why they make them unreliable.
These reliability videos are a must-see. Thanks, Mat, for keeping them coming! Might be worth looking at the next ten, as well.
Could use same video every year.
People always told me that expensive German cars are the most reliable... yes I am from Germany they told me also that Japanese cars have the worst built quality. Thats what marketing did to their understanding of cars
If this video(showing some random repair costs) changed your mind, I have a bridge to sell you.
That was somewhat true in the 80s and 70s (ex. Diesel Mercedes with a manual transmission many of which are still on the road) but that definitely not true anymore, I was told if you want to be a great driver and mechanic buy German or a British car and if you want to be a professional driver or mechanic then only Italian cars are your best possible choice 😭😄, buy Japanese car only if you or your wife works as an accountant because even after 10 years you might never see service department only the maintenance, Japanese cars are somewhat dated 5 - 10 years behind in available technology but they just take their time to perfect the available one and that starts with quality, especially Toyota…
1:44 "This will handle anything you throw at it"
-Ford Ranger Owner
Ford Ranger Owner says hello.
Never trust American cars
@@Hhhh22222-w its Australian tho
@@karimtemri1664 engine made in turkey by the way
Ok ok, so now that this is out, will the M3 prices finally start to drop again?? I need one.
I know Bentley is part of VW...but isn't it still a British car brand?
As Matt mentioned the "first" British brand was Range Rover. Just curious.
Good point as by that logic then range rover is indian
forget who owns it but WHERE IS IT BUILT and DESIGNED? Bentley is british just like JLR and Bentley, none of which have British owners. Is anyone seriously claiming that RollsRoyce is not a British car?
There german and unreliable
The Germans again
think I'll stick with my 2007 Honda Jazz (Fit) which is now touching 290k miles and still drives like a dream. In the 9 years I've owned it apart from routine servicing nothing has gone wrong with this thing ever. I reckon this car has saved me over 100 grand over the 9 years I've had it that i would have had to fork out in new cars and repairs etc etc etc on flashy german cars :)
Same with Prius ....
As always RR top spot 👍 great quality car. Ironic.
New cars are not bad though. Till now atleast there are no major complaints
@@arshu2019 because they're new, give them a few years
I’d never expect a bmw M5 or M3 to be on this list my dads dad has an F90 2019 M5 and has gad 0 issues and my mum has an M3 and only has had to change engine cover because it some how cracked but it’s all good now
2019 is still too new to have issues.
@@PsychedMedia well let’s just see what happens in the future 😊
It's because they have very common, specific issues that pull the reliability rating right down. I'd be more concerned about buying a car with varied issues rather than a bmw with a couple of known common faults. Well as long as it's been sorted before I buy it of course.
The F-series M3 being grouped together with the E9x generation is a real disservice to the generational improvments made towards it, the throttle body issue only applies to the latter and rod bearings being one of the leading causes of engine failure with the E-series was also revised. Surprised to hear about the DCT gearbox failures dragging it down, it's usually considered quite reliable, the main problem you hear getting drummed up with the F-series is spun crank hubs.
F10 F90 share the same engine thoo, s63 v8