Car Owners More satisfied With Budget Brands Than Luxury Manufacturers

Auto Express’ Driver Power examine is out for two thousand seventeen and it shows money doesn’t necessarily buy happiness for car owners, at least not for the British people that took part in the survey. The sixteen th annual edition of U.K.’s thickest car satisfaction investigate has exposed the Skoda Superb — essentially a cheaper and fatter VW Passat — is the car which makes its owners the happiest, with an exceptional satisfaction score of 93.Four percent.

To the surprise of many, the Superb is followed in the rankings by yet another Skoda, the now defunct Yeti with just about the same level of satisfaction among owners of the funky crossover: 93.3%. The only premium brand to make it into the top five was Lexus with the RX in third with a 93.1% rating, matching the Toyota RAV4’s score and surpassing the Kia cee’d (93%) in fifth spot.

While Skoda has claimed the very first two place, the fancier and more expensive Volkswagen and Audi brands part of the same group remarkably have models in the bottom five of the rankings, which includes a total of seventy five cars. The most disappointing models were the VW up!, Audi A1, Citroën C4 Cactus, Ford Mondeo, and the Citroën C1 dead last.

Overall, British drivers are generally sated with the choices they’ve made as the average score stands at 89.5%. The probe took into account responses from more than 70,000 fresh car owners and covered nine judging categories, such as reliability, running costs, convenience, and treating. While the average score was fairly high, respondents would like their cars to have more luggage area, which isn’t all that surprising considering the Skoda Superb is absolutely massive and was very first in the top. Owners also voiced their desire to have better fuel economy and a more efficient satellite navigation system.

Albeit the Superb claimed top spot, it’s far from being flawless. Indeed, about a fifth of owners have reported technical problems with the midsize car, particularly with its electrics. The situation is worse for some of the domestic models, such as the Jaguar XF with almost a third of customers telling their cars have had a problem in the last twelve months of ownership. It’s a similar story with the smaller XE sedan (26.7%) and with Land Rover’s Discovery Sport (25.3%) part of the same Tata Motors-owned conglomerate.

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MONEY DOESN’T BUY HAPPINESS FOR CAR OWNERS, AS CONSUMERS VOTE FOR BUDGET BRANDS OVER EXPENSIVE MARQUES IN SURVEY.

Drivers expecting to get a quality practice when spending thousands more on a prestige car are in for a shock – buyers of models from budget brands are more satisfied with their cars, according to a fresh survey.

Results published today from Driver Power, Britain’s largest survey of motorists, has exposed that the Skoda Superb is the car which makes its owners happiest, with a remarkable 93.4% satisfaction score. The manufacturer’s Yeti takes 2nd place with a 93.3% score.

Meantime, the bottom two places in the list of seventy five cars are taken by cars from Volkswagen and Audi which are thought of as quality brands.

Another top scoring model was the C’eed from Kia, another low-cost marque, which made fifth place. Lexus was the only ‘prestige’ brand in the top five of the survey, which is published in Auto Express.

There’s bad news for British marques too – the Jaguar XF takes the unwanted crown for the most faults in the survey, with almost a third of owners (30.9%) telling their car has had an issue in the very first twelve months of ownership. The firm’s XE was the next worst with 26.7% while Land Rover fared poorly too with the Discovery Sport with 25.3% of owners experiencing problems.

Now in its sixteen th year, Driver Power is the largest car satisfaction investigate in the UK. For the Fresh Car Survey, respondents with fresh cars (less than twelve months old) were asked to rate them in thirty one different areas. It is one of seven sections in the overall Driver Power assessment program, which has already received more than 70,000 consumer responses for 2017.

“Some people still have a negative opinion of brands like Skoda and Kia, but the results of Driver Power prove that this is indeed outdated” said Steve Fowler, editor-in-chief of Auto Express.

He continued: “Skoda drivers are almost evangelical about their cars, the dealers and the entire ownership practice. It may seem odd that models from Skoda’s parent company VW and Audi scored so much lower in the survey but when customers pay for a quality practice and don’t get it, they’re tied to feel let down.”

The overall rating percentage is an average of scores across nine judging categories including convenience, treating, running costs and reliability. British drivers are generally fairly glad with their fresh cars with an average score of 89.5%. Albeit satisfaction scores are high, owners across the board said they would vote for better fuel economy, improvements to the built-in satellite navigation, and more space for luggage.

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