Dyson vacuum cleaners have come bottom for reliability in a report published today.

The brand, famous for its bagless technology, fell below average in a survey of owners conducted by the consumer magazine Which?

More than 5,100 people with different brands of upright cleaner and almost 2,600 with cylinders models were questioned about their reliability.

Overall, 79 per cent of upright cleaners and 91 per cent of cylinder models up to six years old had not needed to be repaired.

Among Dyson cleaners, the figures fell to 75 per cent (upright) and 81 per cent (cylinder).

Thursday May 06, 2004