Are Porsches Reliable? Here's What Consumer Reports Data Says

The institution that would later go Porsche was founded successful 1931 and has carved retired a spot arsenic an iconic capacity brand. Five years later, Consumer Reports (CR) launched arsenic a non-profit statement to supply trusted info astir a full assortment of equipment and services. Yet nan second hasn't really reported connected nan erstwhile excessively often successful caller years. In fact, it looks for illustration CR only sewage superior astir testing Porsches for nan 2025 exemplary year. When that happened, Porsche was 1 of only 4 car brands, retired of 32 evaluated, to gain "Recommended" ratings for each vehicles that were tested. It's beardown grounds for their reliability, too, since that's 1 of nan 4 cardinal factors that goes into a vehicle's wide CR grade.

Now, we'll get into nan specifications below, but we do person a fewer disclaimers to woody pinch first — starting pinch nan truth that only 4 Porsche vehicles really went done CR's complete testing regimen: nan 2025 Porsche Macan and Cayenne SUVs on pinch nan 718 Boxster roadster and nan Taycan EV. So erstwhile Porsche was rated No. 4 connected CR's list of brands pinch nan champion wide scores, it was based solely connected those models. Moreover, erstwhile things do spell incorrect pinch Porsches, CR says you'll salary a hefty value to get backmost connected nan road. The automaker classed second-to-last successful CR's 2025 study of attraction and repair costs by brand. It's portion of nan logic CR recommends skipping European brands if you want a luxury vehicle.

The Porsche SUV pinch nan champion predicted reliability, according to Consumer Reports, is nan compact Macan. Note that this is nan gas-powered version. It's not nan electric Porsche Macan and Macan 4S we called awesome — if costly — compact crossovers erstwhile we drove them successful nan autumn of 2024. Getting down to nan nitty-gritty, though, nan Macan whitethorn beryllium tops among Porsche SUVs, but it's really astir mean compared to nan emblematic caller car. Compared to its competitory set, it's nan fifth-most reliable luxury-compact SUV successful a people of 22 — sitting correct betwixt nan Acura RDX and Lexus NX Plug-in Hybrid — and it's nan No. 1 German prime successful nan class arsenic well. It's further worthy pointing retired that nan gas-powered Macan had yet to beryllium recalled astatine nan clip this was published.

In position of CR's luxury midsize SUVs, nan Porsche Cayenne checks successful astatine No. 7 successful nan conception for predicted reliability, connected a database that includes 13 rivals. But nan Germans showed up amended present than successful nan compact luxury SUV segment, meaning nan Cayenne is predicted to person worse reliability than rides specified arsenic nan Audi Q8 and BMW X5/X6. Overall, Consumer Reports thinks nan Cayenne will, for illustration nan Macan, person astir mean reliability compared to nan manufacture arsenic a whole. The 2025 Cayenne is besides nan taxable of a callback for a leak successful its substance system.

On nan car broadside of nan ledger, nan Porsche 718 Boxster and Taycan person fundamentally nan aforesaid people for predicted reliability, and arsenic pinch nan Macan and Cayenne, nan results were branded average. And nan aforesaid is existent for nan Porsche 718 Cayman which — retrieve — hasn't been afloat tested by CR. The Cayman results are astir apt a operation of 2 things: first, Consumer Reports says it based nan Cayman's people solely connected Porsche's wide marque scores, not connected information circumstantial to nan car itself. Next, CR calls nan Cayman "the coupe version" of nan Boxster, truthful why not springiness some models nan aforesaid nonstop reliability score?

The result near nan Boxster successful 5th spot for predicted reliability, down akin cars for illustration nan Mazda MX-5 Miata, Toyota Supra, BMW Z4, and Chevrolet Corvette, and up of only nan Nissan Z. Facing disconnected against much rivals, nan Cayman is No. 10 retired of 14 successful a conception including nan Ford Mustang, Lexus LC and RC, and nan Honda Civic Si.

Finally, we travel to nan 2025 Porsche Taycan and its excellence done engineering. That fantabulous engineering didn't make overmuch of a quality successful nan CR reliability ratings, though, since nan Taycan joins nan nine of cars pinch an mean people successful that measure. CR suggested nan BMW i4, Lexus ES, and BMW i5 arsenic akin cars pinch amended predicted reliability, while nan Tesla Model 3, Mercedes-Benz EQE/EQS, Polestar 2, and Lucid Air each trailed nan Taycan.