Only a few car manufacturers support classic cars really well (Question of the week)
Anyone buying a youngtimer or even a classic car of the future today naturally wonders whether parts availability and maintainability are guaranteed in the medium and long term.
The individual manufacturers have positioned themselves very differently and they do not all attach the same importance to this issue. We asked this question four years ago, before corona and the e-wave . But now we want to know whether the situation has changed. The " question of the week" was therefore: Which manufacturer would you feel most comfortable with when it comes to the maintainability and availability of parts for younger and older classic bikes in the future?
The differences between the two surveys are relatively small. However, Porsche has overtaken Mercedes-Benz to take the lead, with 36.2% believing that Porsche does a good job here, compared to just 26.5% in 2019.
Mercedes-Benz received 35.1% of the votes, slightly less than four years ago (39.1%).
Jaguar is in third place, with the British brand increasing from 4.4% to 5.9%.
Alfa Romeo in fourth place also increased, from 2.0 % to 3.2 %, while Volkswagen fell back, collecting only 3.2 % of the vote instead of 4.8 %.
Volkswagen is followed by Ferrari, GM, Lamborghini, Mazda, Peugeot and Aston Martin, albeit with very low percentages.
In general, the Japanese are not trusted very much, but Opel and Audi are not convincing either.
It is interesting to note that 3.2% (2019: 4.8%) believe that manufacturers other than those mentioned offer even better support.
The evaluation is not really conclusive; a more elaborate and in-depth survey would probably be needed to measure the quality of support per manufacturer. Perhaps we'll look into it sometime.
We have already posed the next "question of the week" on a sensitive topic: Should a classic car-specific driver's license be introduced?
And of course you can still read all the previous questions of the weekin the topic channel.
