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If you’ve ever wondered which car brand is the cheapest to maintain, a Georgia mechanic may have the answer after doing his own research.
Sherwood Cooke runs a repair shop in Georgia and wanted to find out which brand causes the least problems for customers and has the lowest maintenance costs.
In a clip posted on Facebook outlining his findings, he warned that the top results might surprise many.
In fact, he said the “grossly understated” result will take many by surprise when it comes to repairing cars.
Cheapest car brands to maintain
The top brand might come as a big surprise.
Fifth place went to Toyota, which surprised even Cooke.
“It was a surprise for us,” he said in the clip.
Honda was next, and Cooke’s son was surprised that Toyota and Honda did not occupy the top two positions.
Nissan followed, and Subaru took second place. But there was a major surprise in first place: Mazda was named the cheapest car brand to maintain.
An interesting detail is that all five top brands are Japanese.
“We redid the calculations several times just to be sure,” the mechanic said, to make sure the results were correct.
Cooke added that he would never have predicted this ranking before taking the tests.
Why the results match industry data
In general, brands like Honda, Mazda and Toyota frequently rank high when it comes to reliability and maintenance costs.
For example, the company Ciocca Automotive states that the Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic are among the cheapest cars to maintain.
And hybrids like the Toyota Prius do very well in this regard.
At the same time, Mazda seems worthy of Cooke’s ranking. The brand has gradually built its reputation as a maker of cars that are relatively cheap to own, and spare parts are easy to find.
Those who saw Cooke’s clip, including other mechanics, were not as surprised as he was.
“Mazda is grossly underrated,” said one user.
“In my shop we always recommend Toyota and Honda for their extreme reliability,” commented another.
Even though Cooke was surprised, the results match what others have discovered, writes supercarblondie.com.
