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Audi Q5 vs. Mercedes-Benz GLK Lemon Odds and Nada Odds
Other sources of Audi Q5 and Mercedes-Benz GLK reliability data provide only averages, which can conceal as much as they reveal. So we also report the percentage of Audi Q5s and Mercedes-Benz GLKs with no repairs at all in the past year and the percentage of Audi Q5s and Mercedes-Benz GLKs that are lemons (required three or more repair trips in the past year). These figures might surprise you.
These stats are promptly updated four times a year, to closely track Audi Q5 and Mercedes-Benz GLK lemon odds as the cars age. Others can be over a year behind. Only TrueDelta tells you how reliable the Audi Q5 and Mercedes-Benz GLK have been recently.
To see how frequently Audi Q5 and Mercedes-Benz GLK problems occur, check out our car reliability stats.
What Our Members Are Saying about the Brand Reputation of the Audi Q5
| 2010 |
4dr SUV 270-horsepower 3.2L V6
6-speed shiftable automatic AWD |
quality design and production
see full Audi Q5 review |
| Audi Q5 Brand Reputation: Cons |
| Year | Body/Powertrain | Comment |
| 2012 |
4dr SUV 270-horsepower 3.2L V6
6-speed shiftable automatic AWD |
Just after I put down my money for European delivery and Consumer Reports "worst reliability" came out for the V6. This web site reassured me about the cause of the report, the plastic housing water pump, that no longer comes on the V6.
see full Audi Q5 review |
| 2011 |
4dr SUV turbocharged 211hp 2.0L I4
8-speed shiftable automatic AWD |
Ford Explorers were long a bad brand based on the tire fiasco that was proven, for the most part, was owner created.
So have high expectations that it will improve.
see full Audi Q5 review |
TrueDelta Reviews the Brand Reputation of the Mercedes-Benz GLK
| 2013 |
The smaller the Mercedes, the more heavily it tends to trade on the three-pointed star. So the #1 reason to consider a GLK250 carries over from the GLK350 review (text from the previous review in italics):
I don't personally put much stock in brands, with cars or anything else. But each time I have a Mercedes-Benz for a week the continuing power of the marque has been unavoidable.
Audi and BMW now command similar prices, but haven't yet acquired the same mystique. They probably never will for people born before 1980. Until the final years of the twentieth century, Audis were largely ignored as troublesome, modestly upgraded VWs and BMW was mostly known for the compact, still semi-affordable 3-Series. Neither could hold a candle to the company that invented the mass-produced automobile and that has been strongly associated with large, top-shelf automobiles ever since.
Gayla (the site's programmer, my wife) is not a car person. Her take on the GLK: "Of course it's a good car, it's a Mercedes." Some of my friends who are more into cars--and who own competing makes--similarly employ a different tone when asking about "the Mercedes." They could afford one, so why don't they own one? Partly because the brand's mystique cuts both ways. They're not interested in making such a strong status statement.
Can even a compact crossover make a strong status statement? Mercedes-Benz has done its best to make this so--check out the size of the three-pointed star on the GLK's grille.
see full Mercedes-Benz GLK review |
What Our Members Are Saying about the Brand Reputation of the Mercedes-Benz GLK
