THE used-car brand survey reveals the attitudes of drivers of all surveyed models in a maker’s line-up to gauge the satisfaction with their activity as a whole.
This includes ratings for cars that don’t necessarily make the top-75 model survey thanks to low individual sales numbers, because together with their stablemates they provide a statistically valid overview of a brand’s performance. It’s notable that most of the top-performing brands don’t fare very well for most or fewest reported faults, which illustrates the importance of measuring satisfaction in these areas.
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31. Fiat 80.70%
SHARE OF OWNERS EXPERIENCING FAULTS 25.16%
FIAT props up the bottom of this year’s survey. Satisfaction appears poorest in the infotainment and electrics category, but ratings aren’t much better for reliability and build quality, ride and handling, or powertrains. Fiat doesn’t fare quite so badly for faults, but electrical problems make up 38 per cent of the total, followed by transmissions (27 per cent) and suspension (23 per cent).
30. Nissan 80.93%
SHARE OF OWNERS EXPERIENCING FAULTS 19.53%
IT’S grim reading for Nissan again, with no improvement on its 2021 result, and dismal scores across all categories. At least the numbers are consistent, so the firm knows it has room to improve everywhere. Electrics accounted for 22 per cent of faults, with safety-system faults and suspension issues at around 10 per cent each. It’s a fairly mixed bag elsewhere,
