Car accelerator jams and car hits 135mph

[MackemX]

Top Gear (love that program 8)) in the UK has one of the largest surveys in the UK every year but not in the millions

http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/survey/

for some reason they don't have a most unreliable list for 2005 but there is one for 2004

http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/survey/2004/unreliable.shtml

The 10 most unreliable cars

There were 142 cars listed in the final survey, of which the following 10 were ranked as the most unreliable.

Citroen C3 (133rd)
VW Polo (New) (134th)
Citroen Xsara (135th)
Citroen C5 (136th)
Fiat Stilo (137th)
Renault Megane (New) (138th)
Mercedes M-Class (139th)
Peugeot 307 (140th)
Renault Laguna (141st)
Renault Espace (142nd)

[hech54]

Jeremy Clarkson (of Top Gear) also says that the past two year VW GTi (2.0 Turbo and the R32) are some of the best cars he has ever driven.
And I think the Volkswagen GTi also won Top Gear's Car Of The Year recently if I'm not mistaken?
That and the fact that my old 1980 Polo/Fiesta broke down once....it was a $4.95 fuel filter. I sold it with over 100,000 miles on it and it had the original clutch.
There are Chevy fans who will swear on a stack of bibles that every Ford they ever owned was complete garbage....There are Ford fans who will swear on a stack of bibles that every Chevy they ever owned was complete garbage...and nuckleheads from BOTH sides tend to team up on every "foreign" car ever brought into America....just like CBS did with the Audi 5000 back at the same exact time when steel mills where closing all over America and the UAW was blaming foreign imported everything.
The best Chevy, Ford and Chrysler products always have been imported cars with a Chevy, Ford or Chrysler sticker on them...plain and simple.
The whole world recognizes Honda and Toyota's superior quality...except those "Buy American" guys who have never even sat in a foreign car and will also swear on a stack of bibles that they are junk....and tell you stories about a "buddy of mine" who had one and it broke down every day, got terrible gas mileage and even raped his neighbors pet poodle....just like CBS rigging the Audi 5000 to make it do what one idiot said it did.....all along nobody had enough brains to question how a 4 Cylinder engine can overpower a full-on brake stomp....even by a woman.

[hech54]

2005 Top Gear Survey - the Top 10

(Ranking: Make - Model)

1: Honda S2000
2: Lexus IS200/300
3: Lexus RX300
4: Skoda Superb(Made by Volkswagen)
5: Skoda Octavia(Made by Volkswagen)
6: Honda Jazz
7: Honda Accord
8: Subaru Legacy
9: Skoda Fabia (made by Volkswagen)
10: Subaru Forester

[hech54]

Would you buy this car again?

Top 10 who said 'Yes, I'd buy this car again!'
Jaguar XJ (100%)
Honda S2000 (99%)
Subaru Forester (99%)
Honda Jazz (98%)
Skoda Fabia (98%) (Volkswagen)
Skoda Octavia (97%) (Volkswagen)
Seat Toledo (97%) (Also a Volkswagen)
Honda CR-V (96%)
BMW 5-Series (96%)
BMW Z3 (96%)

[BJ_M]

i guess the one guy who bought a Jaguar XJ would buy another one ..

just kidding:

"The Jaguar XJ has won the prestigious Best Luxury Car Award in the 2005 Fleet World Awards for a second consecutive year. The awards were made at a special ceremony on Thursday 19th May at the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall. .....This is the second award for the Jaguar XJ this year, in January it picked up the award for Best Luxury Car' for a second consecutive year at the What Car? Car of the Year Awards.

Jaguar has also achieved remarkable success in the latest J.D. Power and Associates Initial Quality Study released yesterday in the U.S. Improving to second place overall, Jaguar's success was led by its best performing model in the survey – the X-TYPE. Jaguar topped the poll as the highest-ranked European nameplate. In addition, Jaguar's Halewood plant, where the X-TYPE is manufactured, received J.D. Power's Gold Award for European plant performance."

[hech54]

I remember the old Jags...what a nightmare. Much of the wiring under the hood looked like speaker wire. I'm glad to see them doing better.

[MackemX]

Jeremy Clarkson (of Top Gear) also says that the past two year VW GTi (2.0 Turbo and the R32) are some of the best cars he has ever driven.
And I think the Volkswagen GTi also won Top Gear's Car Of The Year recently if I'm not mistaken?
That and the fact that my old 1980 Polo/Fiesta broke down once....it was a $4.95 fuel filter. I sold it with over 100,000 miles on it and it had the original clutch.

another reason why in the UK, Golf's are one car that holds their re-sale value very well due to their reliability (and good looks)

[hech54]

i guess the one guy who bought a Jaguar XJ would buy another one ..

just kidding:

That is kind of odd...what are the odds...100%?
Of course I believe that if you are a Brit there is a law
somewhere that you must say nothing but nice things about Jags...

[Doramius]

I've never had a problem with any Diamler Chrysler Vehicle I've ever driven. I've driven a lot of them. My parents had a 1977 RAM VAN they sold in 1988 because it had over 500k miles on it. We drove everywhere when I was a kid. From NY to Maine, to California, to Florida, and back several times. They sold it because my mom backed into a concrete post and the winter after that caused it to start rusting.

I had a RAM 1500 longbed V6, that "overweighted" & towing an overweighted Uhaul trailer (the large 2 room size) drove from Rochester, NY to Las Vegas, NV. We started on the 90-80, but detoured to Route 70 through St Louis to bypass most of the mountains. Made it into Colorado fine, but started dragging bad (driving 25-30mph uphill at times). Once we got off the 70 onto the 15 south. It wasn't so bad. Freaky with the wind through the gorge near St George, UT, but that truck rocked. I won't go into the gas mileage, because it sucked with that much load.
Also had a 1995 Dodge Grand Caravan that lasted 200k miles until I hit a 4 point white tail and totalled it.

Never had a Toyota die before 250k miles. Haven't had a VW die before 300k miles.

Had to repair my 2000 Mercury Sable 4 times with the engine alone. Also replaced the entire A/C & heating System.

Had a Chevy Caprice Classic station Wagon that died at 120k miles. But the Oldsmobile 88 Custom Cruiser Lasted to about 180k miles.

As far as repairs for the vehicles went, The ones that lasted the longest required the fewest repairs.