Japanese models are still the most reliable on roads

JAPANESE cars remain the most dependable, according to the results of the latest What Car? Reliability Survey.

Four out of the top five most highly ranked vehicles are from a Japanese brand, with the top two – the Toyota Yaris and the Suzuki SX4 S-cross, above – coming joint first, having both received 100 per cent reliability scores.

Suzuki tops the overall brand reliability rankings for cars up to four years old, while the Nissan Leaf is the highest ranked electric vehicle, coming third in the overall model table.

At the other end of the scale, the Tesla Model S and Land Rover Range Rover didn’t fare as well, coming bottom of the model rankings with a reliability score of 50.9 per cent and second to last with 67.3 per cent respectively.

The survey reveals ratings for 159 models spanning 31 brands and overall, around 30 per cent of the 18,284 survey respondents with cars less than four years old said their car had suffered at least one fault in the past 12 months.