BMW, Honda top most-reliable U.K. car ranking

William Atkins
Monday, 09 November 2009 17:14

Science - Energy

According to the publication Fleet News, the top two most reliable automobile manufacturers used by British fleet management companies are BMW and Honda. And for most reliable car models, Honda had three of the top five models, with BMW capturing the other two spots.


The survey was conducted from about 840,000 late model automobiles used by the fifty largest fleet management companies in the United Kingdom.

The editor of Fleet News, Stephen Briers, stated, “This survey is the largest of its kind in the country and is based on feedback from those who really know about the reliability of vehicles – people who run hundreds of thousands of vehicles over many hundreds of thousands of miles.” [Gizmag: “Research reveals the most reliable vehicles”]

According to the Fleet News survey, the top five spots for most reliable cars went to:

1.    Honda Civic
2.    BMW 3 Series
3.    Honda Jazz
4.    Honda Accord
5.    BMW 5 Series

For the most reliable car manufacturer, the top five positions looked like this:

1.    BMW
2.    Honda
3.    Audi
4.    Toyota
5.    Volkswagen

For additional information on the most reliable cars in the United Kingdom based on surveys completed by fleet management companies, please read the November 5, 2009 Fleet News article “The most reliable fleet cars revealed.”

Page two talks about the Fleet News reliability survey on vans in the United Kingdom.