Broken Down Cars May-2026

Whenever Beth and I take a road trip, we record the makes of the cars we see broken down beside the highway. We update after every trip and will continue to do so.. As of the date in the title these are the totals: Chevrolet-183 Ford-174 Dodge/Jeep-109 Honda/Acura-49 Toyota/Lexus-37 Nissan/Infiniti-37 Kia/Hyundai-32 VW-12 Subaru-12 Mazda- 11 BMW-6 Mitsubishi-5 Suzuki-3 Range Rover-2 Volvo-1 Also over a dozen unidentified vehicles of which we could not determine the manufacturer so do not include them here. This is by no means a scientifically accurate indication of the reliability of these brands, because we do not know the age and maintenance records of the broken cars and other important information. But generally speaking, foreign cars have a much better reliability record than domestic vehicles per units sold, and that pattern shows up in our informal observations.