Reliability of BMW brand is confirmed by results of global industry survey

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Written by Staff Reporter

Wednesday, 12 November 2008

ONE of the world’s largest car surveys has named BMW as most reliable brand, with the 3 Series named the most reliable car in a historic win over Japanese brands.
The German marque topped the charts in the 2008 Fleet News’ ‘FN50’ publication’s vehicle reliability survey, which lists the cars considered most dependable among Britain’s 50 largest leasing companies.
BMW took the top places from Toyota and Honda, which have consistently dominated the top of the table for years.
The Japanese manufacturers were still named as the second and third most reliable carmakers respectively according to the survey, which this year covered 881,000 vehicles.
The BMW 3 Series was the most rated model for reliability, ahead of the Toyota Avensis in second and Honda Accord. The survey also found that Ford jumped from sixth place to fourth, while a string of other German brands took the next few places in the reliability honours, with Volkswagen fifth, Mercedes-Benz sixth and Audi seventh.
Lexus, Mazda and Opel/Vauxhall took eighth, ninth and 10th positions.
Among other fleet favourites topping the individual model chart was the Volkswagen Golf in fourth place, Mini in fifth, Mercedes-Benz C-Class in sixth and BMW 1 Series in seventh. The Honda Civic, Ford Focus and Audi A4 took eighth, ninth and tenth places. A second survey into the van fleets of the top leasing companies revealed that Ford was the most rated brand for reliability for the second year running, while the Ford Transit was most reliable model.

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