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I think that Honda south-europe is implementing a new strategy, and is getting good results with that.
We will see what's the future will be like with the new Accord and the new Jazz coming this year.
In a overall survey of the fiabilty of cars in south Europe (24 937 owners of 30 most representatives brands in Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain - 85% men average age of 54 answered to the survey) made by a French magazine called "Que Choisir" (February 2008 issue) give in the top 5 of the most reliable brands :
1 Mazda with 96.8%
2 Toyota with 96.3%
3 Honda with 95.2%
4 Suzuki with 93.7%
5 BMW with 93.7%
10 Ford with 91.2%
13 Skoda with 90.4%
14 Citroen with 90.4%
15 Audi with 90.3%
17 Mercedes with 89.8%
18 Rover with 89.5%
19 Volkswagen with 89.4%
21 Opel with 88.9%
22 Peugeot with 88.9%
23 Alfa Romeo with 88.6%
24 SEATwith 88.4%
25 FIAT with 88.4%
28 Renault with 86.8%
These figures reflects the brakedown rates all models included per brand : so for Honda the brakedown rate is 4.8%.
Then they do the analysis per models/Year of issue
For Mini cars : the three first are the various model of the Yaris, and N° 4 is the Honda Jazz.
For Compact car, four of the three first places are trusted by Toyota with the Prius in N° 1 and various corrola in N° 2-3 and 5, N° 4 is the Astra 1700 D released since january 2004. There are no Civic in the survey. The last one is the Renault Mégane 1900D released between March 1999 and August 2000 with a failure rate of 78.68% !
The Medium class is dominated by teh german with in N° 1 the Audi A4 (97.26%) then Skoda with the octavia and surprise the Renault Laguna 1900D released since March 2005 is N° 3 ! The Honda Accord is N° 12 with the 2.2D released between 3/2003 and 1/2006. And surprise, the worst one are ... the Renault Laguna 1900 D (4/1998-12/2000) and 1600 fuel (1/2001-2/2005)
46.6% of the problems have an Electronic or an Electrical origin !
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