Another great vid JB, thanks. Toyota never used to advertise (well, before 1991 anyway) because they didn't need to. The reliability & build quality spoke for itself. It's great when you say 'basic cars' because my Uncle used to say to me "the more stuff you have on a car, the more stuff there is to go wrong". Wishing you & Simba all the best....
We have a 2007 Toyota Auris which we purchased in 2010 for €7000 (Ireland) it’s now on 300,000 km and had very little go wrong with it. We also have a Toyota iQ which we got this year for £3000 which hopefully will just keep chugging along - free road tax - mega cheap to run and is actually fun to drive, fun fact it has one of the best turning circles of all cars. I can do U turns on most roads 😂 We had a 2014 c class merc for 4 years and things just kept going wrong in it, cost use a lot of money - so sold it, bought the iQ and banked the rest of the money. Next year we are taking the Auris on a 2-3 week Europe road trip! 😊
Re: VW Golf. @ 1:35 the Mk4 I have is like that but a Tdi. 180,000 mls. 20 years old, same clutch, 51 mpg, pennies to run, NO problems and built like a tank! The wife has a Mk 7 GTD and a pain in the arse compared to the Mk4. e.g. the costs n go c wot a ball ache it is to replace the headlight bulbs or running lights n ALWAYS something electrical going wrong n only 32mpg 🤔
Most reliable cars I had was without doubt a Volvo 850 petrol, I was fortunate enough to have three of them - a GLT and two SE 's all had about 200k miles when I got rid of them . IMHO cars made in the late 90's early 2000's had a lot better build quality .
My nissan almera (2004) is legendary. I have had it as my first car since 2017 drives like a beaut. I want a new car but will be buying a house first hopefully early this year. The Almera has saved me so much money and hassle.
I’ve got a Lexus is200 for a daily and a Honda eg for a toy. I can agree with Lexus and Honda being very reliable, only things I’ve had is general wear and tear stuff (brakes, bushings) stuff like that. Nothing major at all
I have a 2014 Suzuki Swift 4x4 here in Finland (great winter car btw). It has about 120.000 km on the clock and has not once had any issues whatsoever. It goes through the rather strict finnish MOT every time w/o problems and simply just works. The reliability is also noted in the statistics of said brand in the german ADAC reports and such, which I researched before buying the Swift. Light years ahed of my previous cars (a Seat and a Citroen) which were a mess of electrical faults all over the place. I also have 2 Suzuki motorcycles which are almost as reliable, but they live a harder life so slightly more issues with them.
Most reliable car I've ever owned is easy: my IS250. Took it from about 63-90k miles over 2.5 years, all I replaced outside of service items were tyres. No repairs at all, not even a bulb. The GS450h, also over 2.5 years from 53-80k miles cost me £80 because I knocked an exhaust heat shield off by bottoming the car out (twice)! Porsche on the other hand...in 2 years and from 58-71k miles I've spent £2380 total to fix the aircon, new coil packs, a corroded brake bleed nipple and new exhaust gaskets (which broke last week). Also £115 excess for a new rear windscreen, replacing the dodgy tint didn't go well. To be fair though, the GS depreciated more than the Porsche has cost in repairs. I'd bet on the porker repair bill winning that by the time it also gets to 2.5 years of ownership though, I reckon there's another grand just waiting to leave my bank account somewhere!
@@CarsWithJB I've seen that same stat but it doesn't make sense to me. Both the dealer and my local specialist said other than £900 of the aircon repairs (aircon is £1500 of the total), the rest are so common they're basically consumables on any Porsche of that era. The 981 is statistically the most reliable Porsche sports car of any age too. To be fair, I've not spared any expense on it and to the sort of people who usually buy cars like that, it's relatively reliable- anything else with equivalent performance would probably have cost more. Only the coil packs actually stopped me driving, although the broken exhaust made your MX-5 sound like a Rolls Royce 😂
@@almightykingpin6322 in my bora I cant really fit anyone behind me and its a 4 door, I just don't take passengers behind my seat, 3 passengers at most in my car, you'll need anything over a golf kinda size, in my polo it was fine though, I just rarely took someone behind my seat. You could maybe get a volvo of some sort as they're not too bad on insurance, or an estate car say golf estate
When I was 17 I was (and still almost) 6feet 5" tall. Iam 57 now and have had loads of company cars and a few private one to. Any year skoda octaves(had a 54 plate company one) will give you leg room behind you seat, as will a mondeo( had a 12 plate one). The only small car I have owned that was anywhere near able to accommodate a person behind me was a honda jazz (14 plate privately owned).
the most reliable car ive owned was a 2010 1.4 diesel peugeot 207. i got it for £1000 when it was on 145k miles and expected to drive it into the ground in a year or two. i owned it 4 and a half years and only had 3 issues. the clutch was worn out by the time i sold it (i was bought a replacement clutch but sold the car with the clutch not installed), the front light needed changed and the driverside window regulator needed replaced. that little car is still on the road now, something that cant be said about the 2003 1.2 petrol fiesta i had which blew its engine 6 months after i sold it, because the guy ran it on low oil.
I'll be in the 40% of Honda owners who do not buy another one. I bought a brand new Honda Jazz Sport in the UK back at the end of 2018. All was well for just over 4 years. It was an okay drive. Nothing special . Bit noisy at 70 MPH (112kmh). Infotainment system was just about passable. Fuel economy was okay, and it's party trick is that it's quite spacious, with the magic seats. But at just over 4 years old, then my low pressure fuel pump went wrong. In the USA they had a recall for I'm pretty sure the same model as my one . However Honda UK seems to apparently think that my car was not affected by the major batch of faulty Denso fuel pumps. So I've got a £1200 bill spread over a few garage visits whilst the fault was trying to be found. It's really easy to find that there was a massive recall of 700,000 Honda vehicles around the age of my one about Denso low pressure fuel pump failures, but somehow I magically never got one of those, but my fuel pump has gone wrong. Honda UK are being really useless. I will NEVER EVER EVER EVER buy another Honda car or motorcycle EVER EVER EVER again. Things go wrong sometimes, but Honda UKs abysmal response to me has meant I can never ever trust Honda again.
Hyundais and kias are f*cking shitboxes. My neighbour have haundai i30 the last gen and he has 3. Automatic Gearbox after 30k km. And i have dacia and it's not bad as hyundai but the quality after fell of after the warranty ends. I have 3. Cluth after 90k km and suspension is almost ko.
Statistically they are not. All the brands you mentioned are reliable, but bad luck or bad maintenance can break any car. Especially in the used market there will always be owners with bad experiences. It's all gambling- you might buy 5 Audis and have perfect reliability, then have a Lexus with a bunch of faults. Odds are though, the Audis will break and the Lexus won't. The Korean brands and Dacias are cheap cars so they're probably less likely to be well maintained- especially if you get an ex-rental one, since those are common rental brands (a week after JB had a Picanto hire car, I had a ProCeed 😄).
I bought a 140k mile T Sport Yaris for £575 in 2020. Now its on 175k and it’s still going strong! What a car
Another great vid JB, thanks. Toyota never used to advertise (well, before 1991 anyway) because they didn't need to. The reliability & build quality spoke for itself. It's great when you say 'basic cars' because my Uncle used to say to me "the more stuff you have on a car, the more stuff there is to go wrong". Wishing you & Simba all the best....
Great video bro 👍
can we expect the 10 cheapest hybrid cars video soon?
I’ll see what I can do 👀
Id like that
I had an 03 MX5 1.8 SVT. Drove it for 5 years and nothing went wrong or needed replacing brilliant
We have a 2007 Toyota Auris which we purchased in 2010 for €7000 (Ireland) it’s now on 300,000 km and had very little go wrong with it.
We also have a Toyota iQ which we got this year for £3000 which hopefully will just keep chugging along - free road tax - mega cheap to run and is actually fun to drive, fun fact it has one of the best turning circles of all cars. I can do U turns on most roads 😂
We had a 2014 c class merc for 4 years and things just kept going wrong in it, cost use a lot of money - so sold it, bought the iQ and banked the rest of the money.
Next year we are taking the Auris on a 2-3 week Europe road trip! 😊
Not the slightest bit surprised re Merc !
Re: VW Golf. @ 1:35 the Mk4 I have is like that but a Tdi. 180,000 mls. 20 years old, same clutch, 51 mpg, pennies to run, NO problems and built like a tank!
The wife has a Mk 7 GTD and a pain in the arse compared to the Mk4. e.g. the costs n go c wot a ball ache it is to replace the headlight bulbs or running lights n ALWAYS something electrical going wrong n only 32mpg 🤔
Most reliable cars I had was without doubt a Volvo 850 petrol, I was fortunate enough to have three of them - a GLT and two SE 's all had about 200k miles when I got rid of them . IMHO cars made in the late 90's early 2000's had a lot better build quality .
Definitely on latter ! And surprised Volvo not mentioned by JB .
My nissan almera (2004) is legendary. I have had it as my first car since 2017 drives like a beaut. I want a new car but will be buying a house first hopefully early this year. The Almera has saved me so much money and hassle.
I’ve got a Lexus is200 for a daily and a Honda eg for a toy. I can agree with Lexus and Honda being very reliable, only things I’ve had is general wear and tear stuff (brakes, bushings) stuff like that. Nothing major at all
Not surprised Subaru didn't make this list. Their reliability was king in the 90s and early 2000s and then it went off a cliff eventually
A real shame!
What’s your thoughts on an Audi A5 3.0 TDI V6
I have a 2014 Suzuki Swift 4x4 here in Finland (great winter car btw). It has about 120.000 km on the clock and has not once had any issues whatsoever. It goes through the rather strict finnish MOT every time w/o problems and simply just works. The reliability is also noted in the statistics of said brand in the german ADAC reports and such, which I researched before buying the Swift. Light years ahed of my previous cars (a Seat and a Citroen) which were a mess of electrical faults all over the place. I also have 2 Suzuki motorcycles which are almost as reliable, but they live a harder life so slightly more issues with them.
Most reliable car I've ever owned is easy: my IS250. Took it from about 63-90k miles over 2.5 years, all I replaced outside of service items were tyres. No repairs at all, not even a bulb. The GS450h, also over 2.5 years from 53-80k miles cost me £80 because I knocked an exhaust heat shield off by bottoming the car out (twice)!
Porsche on the other hand...in 2 years and from 58-71k miles I've spent £2380 total to fix the aircon, new coil packs, a corroded brake bleed nipple and new exhaust gaskets (which broke last week). Also £115 excess for a new rear windscreen, replacing the dodgy tint didn't go well.
To be fair though, the GS depreciated more than the Porsche has cost in repairs. I'd bet on the porker repair bill winning that by the time it also gets to 2.5 years of ownership though, I reckon there's another grand just waiting to leave my bank account somewhere!
Annoying re the Porsche - you’d expect better considering they’ve got a great reliability rating!
@@CarsWithJB I've seen that same stat but it doesn't make sense to me. Both the dealer and my local specialist said other than £900 of the aircon repairs (aircon is £1500 of the total), the rest are so common they're basically consumables on any Porsche of that era. The 981 is statistically the most reliable Porsche sports car of any age too.
To be fair, I've not spared any expense on it and to the sort of people who usually buy cars like that, it's relatively reliable- anything else with equivalent performance would probably have cost more. Only the coil packs actually stopped me driving, although the broken exhaust made your MX-5 sound like a Rolls Royce 😂
What’s ur review about 2.0tdi audi engine please
Can you make a video on good first car hatchbacks please? Like vw golf Mazda 3, Astra etc
could we also have top five first cars for tall new drivers
Mine was a polo 6n2, im 6.2 and it was plenty big enough, unless you're buying a classic mini I wouldn't worry too much
@@2sik_UK the problem is I’m 6’5” and I want to be able to carry people in the backseats too so I’m just kinda contemplating
@@almightykingpin6322 in my bora I cant really fit anyone behind me and its a 4 door, I just don't take passengers behind my seat, 3 passengers at most in my car, you'll need anything over a golf kinda size, in my polo it was fine though, I just rarely took someone behind my seat. You could maybe get a volvo of some sort as they're not too bad on insurance, or an estate car say golf estate
When I was 17 I was (and still almost) 6feet 5" tall.
Iam 57 now and have had loads of company cars and a few private one to.
Any year skoda octaves(had a 54 plate company one) will give you leg room behind you seat, as will a mondeo( had a 12 plate one).
The only small car I have owned that was anywhere near able to accommodate a person behind me was a honda jazz (14 plate privately owned).
the most reliable car ive owned was a 2010 1.4 diesel peugeot 207. i got it for £1000 when it was on 145k miles and expected to drive it into the ground in a year or two. i owned it 4 and a half years and only had 3 issues.
the clutch was worn out by the time i sold it (i was bought a replacement clutch but sold the car with the clutch not installed), the front light needed changed and the driverside window regulator needed replaced.
that little car is still on the road now, something that cant be said about the 2003 1.2 petrol fiesta i had which blew its engine 6 months after i sold it, because the guy ran it on low oil.
I had a 14 plate Mitsubishi Outlander 2.2, it was nice, functional and reliable. But it was sooooo dull.
I'll be in the 40% of Honda owners who do not buy another one.
I bought a brand new Honda Jazz Sport in the UK back at the end of 2018. All was well for just over 4 years.
It was an okay drive. Nothing special . Bit noisy at 70 MPH (112kmh). Infotainment system was just about passable. Fuel economy was okay, and it's party trick is that it's quite spacious, with the magic seats.
But at just over 4 years old, then my low pressure fuel pump went wrong.
In the USA they had a recall for I'm pretty sure the same model as my one . However Honda UK seems to apparently think that my car was not affected by the major batch of faulty Denso fuel pumps. So I've got a £1200 bill spread over a few garage visits whilst the fault was trying to be found.
It's really easy to find that there was a massive recall of 700,000 Honda vehicles around the age of my one about Denso low pressure fuel pump failures, but somehow I magically never got one of those, but my fuel pump has gone wrong.
Honda UK are being really useless.
I will NEVER EVER EVER EVER buy another Honda car or motorcycle EVER EVER EVER again.
Things go wrong sometimes, but Honda UKs abysmal response to me has meant I can never ever trust Honda again.
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what about the ford
Fix or repair daily
@@2sik_UK 😆😆😆😆👍
Type r with the k20 is more reliable then most on this the 2.0 k20 fn2 ep3
Toyota, Honda, Lexus, say no more.
Hyundais and kias are f*cking shitboxes. My neighbour have haundai i30 the last gen and he has 3. Automatic Gearbox after 30k km. And i have dacia and it's not bad as hyundai but the quality after fell of after the warranty ends. I have 3. Cluth after 90k km and suspension is almost ko.
Statistically they are not. All the brands you mentioned are reliable, but bad luck or bad maintenance can break any car. Especially in the used market there will always be owners with bad experiences. It's all gambling- you might buy 5 Audis and have perfect reliability, then have a Lexus with a bunch of faults. Odds are though, the Audis will break and the Lexus won't.
The Korean brands and Dacias are cheap cars so they're probably less likely to be well maintained- especially if you get an ex-rental one, since those are common rental brands (a week after JB had a Picanto hire car, I had a ProCeed 😄).
My Toyota Corolla handled 40k miles in a year.
Daihatsu
Japanese build to last.
3rd 😎