While the VDS ratings are not always a true indicator of real life with a car, they are still a valuable shopping tool for consumers and manufacturers take them very seriously. In this study, original owners of 3 year old cars are surveyed about the number of problems they’ve had with their car. The gap between Luxury brands and non Luxury brands has definately narrowed. Perhaps most amazing to us here in The Garage is that 2 of the top 3 are traditional domestics. Lexus has fewest problems, followed closely by Mercury and Buick. Bringing up the tail end of the list is Land Rover, with almost 4 times the problems reported by Lexus owners!

Complete stats and press release after the break
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