Before investing in the buying a new carwe should not only look at the purchase price, but also what the maintenance and above all sit costsAs a recent study conducted in the United States by Consumer Reports shows, not all brands have the same maintenance costs.
In his latest study, Consumer Reports -the equivalent of the FATHER in the United States – has compared car brands based on the maintenance and repair costs of their models over a ten-year period.
Car maintenance: Which brands are the most expensive?
The figures used in this report are obviously over-estimated based on costs in the United States, but they are still useful to give an idea of which car brand is more expensive to maintain compared to another. After all, the order of magnitude and proportionality are maintained on our side of the Atlantic.
“The difference in the average cost of maintaining a car by brand can add up to thousands of dollars over a 10-year period,” said Steven Elek, Consumer Reports’ head of automotive data analysis. “Clearly, models from luxury brands, in addition to being more expensive to buy, are also more expensive to maintain.”
In the end, it’s something we all expected. The maintenance of a Hyundai, for example, will not cost the same as that of a Porsche or a Tesla. In any case, we are faced with some surprises: brands with a reputation for having expensive models to maintain are not so expensive and vice versa.
The rankings show that the electric carsalthough more expensive to purchase than their internal combustion engine counterparts, are actually more economical in the long term.
As you can see in the following classification, Tesla tops the list of models that require the most affordable maintenance, at the cost recommended by the brand, with an average of $4,035 (3,685 euros) in 10 years.
Toyotaone of the most popular generalist brands and with a range full of hybrid models It has a fairly low maintenance cost of $4,900 over 10 years (4,477 euros). Volkswagen, on the other hand, is considerably more expensive, with an average of $6,900 over 10 years (about 6,000 euros).
In general, German premium brands are the most expensive to maintain. Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz They involve an outlay of between $9,000 and $10,000 over 10 years, i.e. between €8,200 and €9,100.
Even so, these figures are much lower than those of more expensive brands such as Porsche and Land Rover, with an average maintenance cost of $14,090 (12,874 euros) over ten years for the German firm, and $19,250 (17,582 euros) for Land Rover.
Surprisingly, Porsche is not the most expensive brand in terms of maintenance, but Land Rover, a brand already noted in surveys and consumer reports for having a very improvable reliability.
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Source: www.motorpasion.com
