BMW X3: Most reliable vehicle on Germany's roads

BMW X3: Most reliable vehicle on Germany's roads
The BMW X3 has finished first in the ADAC quality ranking for the second time in succession.

In the ADAC breakdown statistics, the BMW X3 was the model which last year made least work for the ADAC roadside assistance mechanics, known in Germany as the "Gelbe Engel".

As in the previous year, the Sports Activity Vehicle was awarded the renowned ADAC "Gelber Engel" prize in the "Quality" category.

Germany's automobile club thus once again deems the BMW X3 to be the most reliable vehicle on Germany's roads.

The "Gelber Engel" award is based on an evaluation of some 2 million cases drawn from ADAC breakdown statistics as well as a customer satisfaction study by the club magazine "ADAC motorwelt". 43,000 readers participated this time.

500,000 units of BMW X3 have been supplied as of November 2008.
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RupertRupert - 2/11/2009 11:52:40 AM
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The X3 was the most reliable in Britain too according to the Top gear Survey 2008.


downtoearthdowntoearth - 2/11/2009 12:32:39 PM
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Here: http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/carreviews/driver_power_2008/


BMWGinoBMWGino - 2/11/2009 1:33:24 PM
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LexusBeautuQueen, This is no surprise, BMW is like naturally superior to anything out there, especially the Lexus. No matter what BMW will like always be ahead of Lexus in everything they do...it's because they're fabulous and I'm fabulous. LOL!


tangotango - 2/11/2009 12:08:41 PM
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That isn't really saying much about the rest of the vehicles on European roads. I'm probably gonna get flamed for this, but we are talking about a society that claims VWs are well built. I'll take a Santa Fe over that ANY day.


WimmerWimmer - 2/11/2009 12:44:40 PM
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The VWs made in Germany are well-built.


_43LE_43LE - 2/11/2009 1:37:53 PM
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"Yeah, too bad there aren't any Japanese cars on the roads in Europe."


...Right, I guess you just don't notice them, like other things you selectively don't notice.


_43LE_43LE - 2/11/2009 7:40:48 PM
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Oh I noticed it alright, you'd have to be an idiot not to. It just that is was a very weak shot.


abcdabcd - 2/11/2009 4:26:24 PM
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First of all you should know how the statistics are made to value whether are they any useful, I know how ADAC statistics are made and they're don't very useful to measure whole history of reliability, the most often failure reported by ADAC are drained battery and damaged tire.


abcdabcd - 2/11/2009 6:06:59 PM
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LOL. Large numbers of drained batteries and damaged tires. That is exacly what I need to know whether some car model has e.g. more often airconditioning or transmission failure. Not to mention that peoples in Germany not often call for ADAC help when car is on warranty and it could be repaired by manufacturer's roadside assistance.


downtoearthdowntoearth - 2/11/2009 8:57:55 PM
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abcd is right. ADAC statistics introduce some bias.

The data are collected by counting and normalizing roadside assistance events performed by ADAC Yellow Angels in Germany. Problem is some well-established German brands offer free assistance so drivers need to call ADAC no longer.

Meanwhile since Japanese or French brands (for instance) have servicing infrastructure less developed in Germany than, say, VW or BMW, they can't handle that many on-the-road incidents like failures and malfunctions by themselves, so drivers call ADAC. And the failure index for a specific brand grows.


abcdabcd - 2/12/2009 4:01:06 AM
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What kind of breakdown can possibly ADAC statistics report-mostly this ones that completely immobilized car, no one would be calling for ADAC becouse of airconditioning failure or transmission is not working properly, so there're many defects that are excluded from ADAC statistics, they mostly measure which cars have more often drained batteries-869 222 problems with battery of 3.7 million total interventions, that's 20%, flat tires account for 125 529 interventions. Here are statistics than can report all kinds of breakdowns:http://www.whatcar.com/news-special-report.aspx?NA=236323&EL=3263240....................This is based on the objectively measured (by independent warranty provider) number of breakdowns per 100 car.


abcdabcd - 2/12/2009 4:20:59 PM
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TurboSpyder:"So ADAC's information that for many years said that cars from Japanese manufacturers were the least likely to break down wasn't valid either?"----------Yes.



Type707Type707 - 2/11/2009 4:42:02 PM
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Wow...thats a first.


AmericaAmerica - 2/12/2009 7:29:21 PM
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Ah..No it's the SECOND year in row. Ya didn't see the first line of the article?

"The BMW X3 has finished first in the ADAC quality ranking for the second time in succession."
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