found that Volkswagens were ninth in terms of unreliability, with 1 in 52 engines resulting in failure. In-terestingly, this is better than their German coun-terparts, Audi and BMW, with a failure rate of 1 in 27 and 1 in 45 respectively.  

J.D Power rank Volkswagen even lower than the Warraty Direct survey, ranking them 2 out of 5 for overall dependability. This puts them in “The Rest” category, which is not the category you want to be in. 

 

The Consumer Reports survey of 2016 says very similar. It ranks Volkswagen as 22nd out of 29th for reliability with a reliability score of just 30 out of 100. This is down nine places from last year. The average reliability score for this survey is between 41 and 60, so Volkswagen are pretty well bel...

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