If Renault’s new roadster is really going to trouble the MX-5, it will need to match its opponent’s famed build quality. And that won’t be easy – because the Japanese model has finished top in a reliability study of 450,000 convertibles.
Maintenance cover provider Warranty Direct devised the list from claims it received for mechanical failures. It calculated how long each car was likely to spend in a garage each year, and combined that with the average repair bill to produce a Reliability Index (RI).
The MX-5 did best with a score of 7.29, based on 1.06 days off the road and an average repair bill of £255.59. Honda’s S2000 came in second with an RI of 34.31. It was likely to spend 1.43 days in a workshop with a bill averaging £343.12.
In third, with an RI of 51.95, was the Peugeot 207 CC. At £225.76 it was cheap to mend, but was set to spend 2.15 days a year being fixed.
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