‘Smaller, less complex’ used vehicles top Carfax reliability rankings
Carfax booth at NADA Show 2023. Photo by Joe Overby.
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When making travel or dinner plans with a group, a “smaller, less complex” itinerary may help to avoid hiccups.
Perhaps the same goes for finding reliable vehicles, too.
Carfax said Monday it has developed rankings of the most reliable vehicle types based on billions of records throughout the U.S., millions of vehicles and nearly 200,000 data sources.
The company has also added reliability insights to the Carfax Report and Carfax Car Listings.
The theme behind their findings?
Keep it simple, shopper.
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“With the power of more than 177,000 data sources behind our reliability (insights), we found that smaller, less complex vehicles tended to have fewer unexpected repairs, and therefore higher dependability,” Carfax chief product officer Paul Nadjarian said in a news release.
“If someone is comparing similar cars and about to make one of the biggest purchases of their life, future reliability data helps shoppers see a clearer picture of what ownership may look like over time.”
As for the most reliable vehicles, here are the top three for each segment, according to Carfax data:
— Cars: Kia Rio, Mitsubishi Mirage G4, and Toyota Camry. Each of these vehicles had about a 2% likelihood of unexpected repairs. The segment average was 5.5%.
— SUVs: Honda CR-V, Kia Sportage, and Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross. The likelihood of unexpected repairs on each of these models was less than 2.5%. The average for all SUVs was 7.8%.
— Trucks: Ford Ranger, Nissan Frontier and Toyota Tacoma. Likelihood of unexpected repairs was less than 4%, compared to the 9.1% segment average.
The Carfax Reliability rankings evaluated vehicles from the 2019 through 2023 model years.
“Because these vehicles have been on the road long enough to establish a repair history, Carfax was able to assess reliability across each model year and calculate an average for each vehicle,” the company said in a release. “Carfax provides future reliability insights at the individual vehicle level, helping millions of people make better informed decisions when buying and owning a vehicle.”
