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Study finds many frequently removed vehicles mostly trucks, SUVs

A new investigate suggests full-size SUVs and pickup trucks are theme to a tip numbers of annual reserve remember campaigns contra volume sold, as are domestic vehicles; and that a cars with a lowest remember rates embody Hyundais, Hondas and Toyotas.

The iSeeCars.com investigate used information from a U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s remember database to establish a model’s “recall rate,” or a series of remember campaigns released for it per year per 100,000 units sold.

The really misfortune was a Mercedes-Benz C-Class, with 5.77 remember campaigns per year per 100,000 sedans sold, followed by a GMC Sierra during 3.25 recalls and a BMW 3 and 4 Series during 2.95. (The industry-wide normal for all vehicles was 0.79.) The rest of a tip 10 misfortune was done adult of trucks and pickups, though a Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300.

Highest remember rates (recalls per year per 100,000 sold)

 

  • Mercedes-Benz C-Class (5.77)
  • GMC Sierra (3.25)
  • BMW 3 and 4 Series (2.95)
  • Dodge Durango (2.71)
  • Nissan Pathfinder (2.00)
  • Ram pickup (1.99)
  • Toyota 4Runner (1.98)
  • Dodge Charger (1.74)
  • Chrysler 300 (1.71)
  • Chevrolet Tahoe (1.52)

 

The vehicles with a lowest remember rates was done adult mostly of renouned sedans and some crossovers, with a Hyundai Accent being a best of all; it nabbed a remember rate of only 0.10 campaigns per year per 100,000 sold. The Chevrolet Equinox was second, during 0.11, and a Toyota Corolla third during 0.12.

Lowest remember rates (recalls per year per 100,000 sold)

 

  • Hyundai Accent (0.10)
  • Chevrolet Equinox (0.11)
  • Toyota Corolla (0.12)
  • Honda Civic (0.14)
  • Honda CR-V (0.14)
  • Honda Accord (0.16)
  • Subaru Crosstrek (0.18)
  • Toyota Camry (0.23)
  • Hyundai Elantra (0.23)
  • GMC Terrain (0.26)

 

The investigate also compared a remember rate contra a vehicles’ Consumer Reports trustworthiness rating (out of five) and found a clever though unsurprising association between a magnitude of recalls and a reliability.

All though dual of a tip 10 misfortune scored during or next a CR normal of 3.4-out-of-five stars for trustworthiness (the BMW 3 Series got a 3.6 and a Toyota 4Runner got a 5.0 out of 5.0). And all 10 of a best had above-average trustworthiness scores, with many during or nearby a 5.0-out-of-5.0.

The investigate looked during a series of remember campaigns posted for 69 vehicles from indication years 2013 to 2017; it released vehicles that sole fewer than 50,000 units annually in a U.S.

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