High reliability requirements for classic cars/youngtimers (question of the week)
Modern cars are becoming increasingly reliable. Unwinding thousands of kilometers for a whole year without ever looking under the hood? No problem with a new car.
You get used to this level of comfort and perhaps even expect something similar from a classic or vintage car.
How trouble-free should the old car run? We wanted to find out and explicitly asked the "question of the week ": How reliable should a classic/young car be?
Just over 72 percent consider a maximum of one breakdown per year to be acceptable. Of these, half, i.e. 36 percent in absolute terms, can cope with one breakdown per season, while an equally high proportion expect the same level of reliability as an everyday car, i.e. would like it to break down significantly less than once a year.
Just over 22 percent are prepared to intervene more than once due to technical problems, 8 percent think that 2 to 3 breakdowns would be acceptable, 14 percent do not see breakdowns as problems and simply make the car work again if it breaks down. And if necessary, this can even happen on every major outing.
Incidentally, only one participant in the survey would sell their classic car as soon as it breaks down for the first time, while 15 respondents did not agree with any of the options given. A total of 363 Zwischengas readers took part in the survey.
It can certainly be assumed that classic car owners become more breakdown-tolerant the older the vehicles get. Anyone who drives a brass car, for example, will generally be able to deal with breakdowns, which were not so frequent back then. On the other side of the spectrum, those who drive a youthful luxury sedan will hardly be prepared to get the tools out of the trunk every few miles.
On the whole, however, the demands on freedom from breakdowns appear to be very high, after all, cars that are now 30 or 50 years old (albeit with higher annual mileages) are very likely to have had an average of one breakdown per year.
The graphical representation of the survey thus looks as follows:
We have already proposed a new question of the week. This time we want to know how the Zwischengas readers' (own) offspring are doing, i.e. whether children, grandchildren, grandchildren and so on are interested in the old cars.
And, of course, you can still check out the results of all the previous questions of the week in the dedicated topic channel.
