The Which? study found the Honda Jazz, which can cost less than £9,000, was the most reliable new car.
It outscored the BMW 5 Series and the Jaguar S-type, while almost a third of Mercedes-Benz E-class owners said their car needed repairs in the past year.
The least reliable new vehicle in the survey of 32,550 cars was Ford's MPV, the Focus C-Max.
Customer satisfaction
The Honda Jazz scored 95% for reliability, with no breakdown and only a handful of faults and niggles out of the 406 models sampled.
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