In 2025 the ADAC, the German automobile club, came to help broken-down drivers 3,691,813 times. A breakdown call came in every nine seconds.
Every year the club publishes its Pannenstatistik, its breakdown statistics. It counts the breakdowns per 1,000 vehicles of each model. A model series is included only if more than 7,000 of it were registered in at least two of its first ten years. The 2026 edition covers 158 models from 27 makers. It rates 74 model series as extremely reliable.