For some time now in my colleagues a topic of conversation: breakdown statistics. There were some emotional word meldunegn, but finally we were able to bring some facts into the topic clarity. Official breakdown statistics of national as well as private car clubs and breakdown helpers show a very (!) distorted picture. Depending on the country, the customer is served the emergency numbers of the plant or the country representative or sold as part of the “new car carefree package”. according to the warranty, depending on the manufacturer, for example, if the service is done at a contract workshop. Depending on the manufacturer, the national breakdown service or the brand breakdown service is offered (I personally enjoyed it with my year-old 320i at that time). Thus, especially from the Nobel manufacturers, comparatively few vehicles are found in the statistics. That these vehicles are nevertheless in the statistics is sometimes simply because the factory breakdown services At certain times do not move out (depending on the manufacturer certain night hours, holidays part of the weekend, far away area etc.) and simply switch to the national service or send it on order. It is particularly embarrassing that certain publications do not point out this point or only point out it quite on the margin. That is understandable, because the works do not come out with their numbers of course. Journalistically, however, this is questionable, because the statistics show in no way in any way In England, car owners were directly interviewed by a car magazine, taking into account objective (pans, defects) aspects such as subjective (perceived quality, driving fun) aspects. The picture shows, for example, the VW Sharan in the last place, the V-Class of DC is also to be found at the back, while Alfa does not beat very well, but nevertheless heedable in the midfield. Conclusion: Does not believe the breakdown statistics in any way, the real world looks at from this. Nicolas