THE

2014 WORLD CUP OFCAR RELIABILITY

Form Guide (Part I): Squad Selection

FIRST UP, MEET THE TEAMSWe see thousands of cars getting fixed on our website every month - from Lamborghinis to Reliant Robins. So we'vedecided to run a World Cup of Car Reliability (what else?) by grouping the makes and models we see into country oforigin. Let's meet the qualifying countries and the players to watch out for!

Czech Republic England France Germany Italy JapanMalaysia Romania South Korea Spain Sweden USA

Who's in?

88 brands will battle it out, including:

1. SQUAD EXPERIENCEWe see thousands of cars getting fixed on our website every month - in other words, thousands of 'caps'. But whichnation's brands do we see most often? In other words, which nations have the most 'experience' at our garages?

Ford

BMW

VW

Peug eot

Renault

Vauxhall

National 'Caps' on WhoCanFixMyCar.com

Its plain to see where the experience lies here- Germany's 'players' share 13,000

appearances on WhoCanFixMyCar betweenthem! Don't forget that Vauxhalls are

rebadged Opels.

At the other end of the scale, we've see theMalaysians, Russians and Romanians just over

Our Analysts say...

Germany France USA Japan England

Italy Sweden South Korea Czech Republic

Others

Ag ricultural Bank of China

BMWMalaysians, Russians and Romanians just over50 times in total. Don't worry - we'll account

for that skew in our analysis...

Focus 3 Series Astra Fiesta Golf

Clio Corsa

1595

1556

1254

1126

1066

1040

1018

0 800 1600Caps

2. MOST CAPPED 'PLAYERS'So if its German cars that are most often in for servicing and repairs, is the most popular model also German?

Ford

Ag ricultural Bank of China

BMW

VW

Peug eot

Renault

Vauxhall

Models with over 1,000 appearances onWhoCanFixMyCar.com

Its neck and neck between twomainstays of the modern game...

but the Focus just edges it.Combined, 3 Series and Focusmake up 9.6% of all of our

servicing work!

Our Analysts say...

England USA Japan France Germany

Sweden Italy South Korea Czech Republic

Russia Spain Malaysia Romania

3 7 10Average Age

3. AVERAGE SQUAD AGEIn other words, how old is the average car we see passing through WhoCanFixMyCar.com on the way to a greatdeal with a local garage?

Ford

Ag ricultural Bank of China

BMW

VW

Peug eot

Renault

Vauxhall

Average Age of Cars on WhoCanFixMyCar

Its as it has been for the past fewtournaments: the English are nospring chickens! What’s dragging theaverage up? Well, its the fringemembers of the squad. You justcan't help but mend those TVRs,Lotuses and Rolls-Royces -allaround 15 years old.

Our Analysts say...

Meanwhile, the Romanian contingent is made up ofa handful of youthful Dacias, imported prior to thefull Dacia UK launch. Let’s see how the vim ofyouth vs experience of age affects reliability in oursquad strengths and weaknesses breakdown! TO BE CONTINUED...

Russia Spain Malaysia Romania

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