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Most reliable cars I've experienced over the last few years have been a ford focus which has needed nothing in 5 years of hard use and a Honda which again needed nothing beyond servicing in 4 years.

My bosses wife has a mk6 estate 2.0 TDi and it's never done with having wee niggling problem. Nothing major but the kind of things that are enough to make you fed up with a car. In fact, he has arranged to trade it for an M135i. I'm not saying that will be more reliable. I really believe that reliability is pot luck now. What's more important to me is how efficiently and willingly the manufacturers dealerships sort the issues.

Up here nearly all the VW dealers are Arnold Clarke. That's not a good thing.