REVEALED: The 10 most reliable family cars - and three to knock off your shopping list
Daily MailBuying a family car is a big decision. Honda Civic Reliability score: 97.6% Honda's long history of producing reliable cars continues with the Civic, which is much improved on the previous generation family hatchback from the Japanese marque What Car? Just 8 per cent of owners said they faced reliability issues in the previous 24 months, most of them triggered by non-engine electric woes. Skoda Octavia Reliability score: 80.3% While the older Skoda Octavia is proving very reliable, the one that replaced it has developed a few issues for owners, according to the responses to the survey While the previous generation Octavia is - based on this data alone - the most dependable of all family cars, the same can't be said about the current version. Seat Leon Reliability score: 74.2% Almost three in five owners of the Seat hatchback said something had gone wrong with their Leon in the previous 24 months, again mostly linked to the sat-nav and infotainment system The Leon is among Seat's best-selling models in the UK, but the latest version has a surprisingly high fault rate given its infancy on the market, only launching in 2020.