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As well as a robust interior and a sizeable boot, they need to be reliable; being stranded by the roadside with budding David Beckhams who really don't want to miss their next match is something no parent would wish for.

That's where the What Car? 2018 Reliability Survey comes in. We asked more than 18,000 people to tell us about any faults their cars had suffered in the previous 12 months, how long each problem had rendered the car undriveable and how much they'd had to pay to get it fixed.

The car models that had the fewest problems and were cheapest to fix gained the top ratings in the study, while those that spent days on end in the garage and landed their owners with hefty repair bills gained the lowest scores. The cars in this round-up are all aged between one and four years old.

Here's our run-down of the top 10 most reliable family cars - and three least dependable models:

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