Munich, 16 April 2009 – numerous automakers must still substantial efforts undertake, in order to make their vehicles breakdown-safer. As the newest breakdown statistics shows General German Automobile Association, for example Ford and Opel have large problems with the reliability. AUDI, BMW and Mercedes could develop against it their supremacy further. With the foreign marks Peugeot cut – most breakdowns in the lower middle class and with the sports cars – and to Renault off – most frequent breakdowns in one model year – most badly. The most reliable import vehicles come from Toyota. They offer the second-best result in the small class.

Ford with most disturbances
Ford places the vehicles with most disturbances with the models Ka, Mondeo, S-max and transit in four classes. Usually it goes thereby around problems with strikers going away barriers or errors in the engine management. The OPEL Signum is in the upper middle class/upper class the most unreliable one. Absolutely most breakdowns arose with the Renault Mégane, year of construction 2003.

AUDI as the breakdown-safest mark
The breakdown-safest mark is AUDI, which sets a2, A3 and A6 with the models equal in three classes of yardsticks for reliability. In the middle class Mercedes C-class maintains ground scarcely against the AUDI A4. For breakdown security in the sports cars/Cabrio and jeep class provides BMW with the 3er Cabrio/Coupé and the X3, with the large Vans the VOLKSWAGEN Sharan. The Japanese manufacturers, that produced the cars with the largest reliability years ago, lie at present in the centre zone, with exception Toyota of the Aygo in the small class nearly in such a way are like the AUDI a2. The Citroën C4 Picasso registers the few disturbances in the class of the small Vans.