‘I’m a mechanic and there’s one nation it is best to by no means purchase a automobile from’

A mechanic has revealed the one nation he’d by no means purchase a automobile from as a result of they’re a “nightmare” and “fail regularly”.

Richard Lowe, who runs Swallow Garage, in Hockley, Birmingham, mentioned in his opinion our French neighbours make the worst automobiles.

And regardless of shopping for and proudly owning German automobiles for years himself, Richard mentioned the nation’s popularity for high quality engineering and reliability was not what it as soon as was.

Japan was his choose for pole place for automobile producers globally, with makes like Toyota and Honda being dependable and having out there elements, he mentioned.

Richard, who repeatedly works to restore automobiles made by our Gallic cousins, mentioned it was straightforward to decide on which nation made the worst autos.

He mentioned: “French cars, Peugeots and Citroens, because they are such a miss-match of parts that fail regularly.

“They are the kind of cars, say somebody was paying for it for you as a company car, it would be absolutely beautiful for the first few years.

“But as soon as the vehicle becomes your responsibility everything goes wrong. They are a nightmare.”

Richard mentioned he wish to say Germany was his favorite nation to supply automobiles from, however he mentioned in actuality he would look elsewhere.

He continued: “If I was buying a car purely on reliability I would buy a Japanese car, Toyota and Honda are still the best manufacturers in the world.

“Everyone will have a different opinion, but nobody will argue against Japan being the best.

“Germany was at one stage the best, but for example BMW, used to be a luxury vehicle, it’s now a mainstream vehicle.

“When I was a kid people who had BMWs were posh people, but with the onslaught of everyone having one also the quality went down.”

Despite dwindling home-grown automobile manufacturing the UK has secured a £4bllion pound take care of the Indian house owners of Jagaur-Land Rover Tata to construct a gigafactory in Somerset to provide electrical automobile batteries.

It is the most important ever automobile funding within the UK and the manufacturing unit will probably be one of many largest of its form in Europe. The location of the positioning, which can see automobile batteries manufactured, has not been formally confirmed by Tata however is known to be on the 616-acre Gravity enterprise park close to Bridgwater, SomersetLive reports.