TOP 10 most unreliable budget cars aged 3-5 years

Buying a car “from hand” or even from a “trade-in” dealer is always a lottery. There is always a possibility that the state of the instance you like is not as radiant as it seems. Refusal to purchase obviously problematic models will help to avoid unpleasant surprises after buying a car.

One of the main principles of choosing a reliable model of a car in a secondary market is to immediately exclude cars from your sphere of interest, which are objectively characterized by low reliability.

These can be calculated in different ways. Someone trusts reviews on specialized Internet resources. However, more objective information can be obtained from the statistics published by major players in the used car market. They have operational information about a much larger number of real cars than individual Internet users. So, recently, CarPrice specialists analyzed the condition of 11 used cars aged 200-3 years, which participated in auctions in the first half of 5.

Before putting a car up for an online auction, it is inspected and evaluated according to 500 parameters. The data collected during the inspection is systematized, and the car is assigned a certain number of points for four parameters: "Body", "Salon", "Technical condition" and "Associated factors". In total, the car can score a maximum of 15 points. A total of 116 different models participated in the study. Of these, experts selected 10 who received the lowest ratings.

Worst of all, among other cars for 3-5 years on the market, the Lifan X60 of the first generation looks like. He scored only 10,87 points. Slightly better, although not by much, things are going on with the Chevrolet Cobalt - 10,9 points. Geely Emgrand EC7 came in third place in the reliability anti-rating with 11,01 points.

Great Wall Hover H5 is almost at the same level - 11,02 points. Daewoo Gentra II is only formally better than them with its 11,04 points. In sixth place in the anti-rating is the restyled Renault Logan of the first generation with 11,16 points. Almost the same is true of the first generation Hyundai Solaris - 11,17 points. The restyled Chevrolet Cruze of the first generation was rated by experts at 11,23. Renault Fluence I, passed the face lift - 11 points. The best among the worst, according to experts, was the first generation Chevrolet Cruze (pre-styling) with its 25 points.

In order to adequately assess the results of the rating of the most “killed” car models of the domestic secondary market, it is worth remembering that most of its participants belong to cars that are extremely popular with taxi drivers. Operation in a taxi company "kills" the most robust models, even such as Renault Logan or Hyundai Solaris.