The Mazda MX-5 Is Still The Most Reliable Sports Car You Can Buy, Consumer Reports 2021 Reliability Survey Says
November 22 2021, Centennial Mazda
Yet again, the Mazda MX-5 earns the title of Most Reliable Sports Car after earning an 88-point score in 2021's Consumer Reports Reliability Survey.
It was Mazda's dream in the late 1980s to take the spirit of classic British sports cars and pair it with a daily driver mentality and long-term quality. It seemed as though the auto industry had long learned to live with the fact that character and spirit had to be linked to quirky electrics, leaky tops, sputtering engines, and faltering clutches.
The MX-5 changed all that. More than 30 years after launching the first Miata, Mazda has cemented this roadster's reputation as a car with long-term durability. (It goes for Mazda overall, too: Mazda is the No.1-ranked mainstream brand in reliability, according to Consumer Reports.)
Consumer Reports isn't just blindly throwing darts at a wall. The independent publication's report is based on surveys of over 300,000 vehicle owners in which respondents evaluate different models over the course of 20 years under the umbrella of a broad range of criteria.
The MX-5's finish atop the sports car/convertible categories places it in the top 10 for overall vehicles. It's joined in the top 10 by the Mazda CX-9.
