The authoritative organization J.D. Power recently released the 2022 annual American car brand reliability research report, which can reflect some of the current situation of car brands at that time. This institution has been studying this for 33 years, and the authority is self-evident. However, strictly speaking, the same brands in China and the United States may also have certain differences, so domestic consumers cannot completely copy it, and can refer to it slightly.
Based on the number of faults per 100 vehicles, the lower the value, the more reliable the vehicle and the stronger the stability. Judging from the list, the reliability of new cars in the United States generally declined last year, with the industry average in the 2021 survey averaging 121 times, and by 2022 this average climbed to 192 times.
Specifically, Kia, who ranks first, has been occupied by Lexus for most of the time in the past, and although Kia has performed well in the past, it is still a bit unexpected to be able to reach the first place. In addition to Kia, Hyundai's ranking is also very high, taking third place, genesis (Genises) in fourth place, these three Korean brands in the US market are high quality reliability. But looking at the country, I don't know how you feel?
American cars in the impression of many people do not say that the quality is very poor, but there are more small problems, after all, Americans may not care so much about the details, but in this J.D. In Power's survey, American car owners are very satisfied with the local brand of Buick, with 147 failures, only higher than Kia, ranking second. In addition, Dodge, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Lincoln and Ford, GMC, these American brands are also remarkable, the number of failures are lower than the industry average.
Japanese cars have always been the top students in this "event" in the past, especially Lexus and Toyota, but this time Toyota ranked 5th, and Lexus only ranked 6th, which is not bad, but it is not good for Lexus, a former champion regular. Among other Japanese brands, Mazda and Mitsubishi also performed better than the industry average, with 179 and 183 failures respectively, but Nissan and Honda may be somewhat disappointing, with failures above the average, 205 and 230 respectively. There are also sub-niche brands such as Subaru, Infiniti, and Acura, which are even more unsatisfactory. It seems that the myth of the reliability of Japanese cars is now maintained quite hard.
German cars have a high degree of market recognition in China, especially Volkswagen, and many people feel that this brand is highly reliable and highly durable, just like Santana in the past. But is that still the case today? Judging by the ranking of the US market, this is not the case. Volkswagen ranked behind Nissan with a lower reliability performance than the industry average, with 217 failures, which is unsatisfactory. Perhaps many people will feel surprised, but think carefully is also in line with the facts, these years the public in the domestic quality problems can not be many, broken shaft, double clutch failure and so on. In addition to Volkswagen, the results of Mercedes-Benz and Audi, two German luxury brands, are also very low. Only BMW is more optimistic.
In the end, Land Rover is still at the bottom of the list, with 284 failures in 100 vehicles, which is basically twice as much as Kia.com. Jaguar performed slightly better, but also reached 233 times. The two brands are indeed notoriously poor in quality, last year Jaguar Land Rover Global CEO also complained internally, due to the vehicle quality reputation problem lost 100,000 new car sales per year, but also said that it will minimize the complexity of the car to reduce the error rate, whether there is an effect is still unknown, the current list of selected samples are 3 years old models.