Browse by Model Year

Explore NHTSA vehicle safety data by model year. Each year hub combines recalls, owner-reported complaints, and crash test rating coverage for all indexable vehicles in our database.

Years Covered

44MODEL YEARS

Vehicle Pages

6,314INDEXABLE

Total Recalls

25,581CAMPAIGNS

Latest Year

2026IN DATABASE

Research Context

The year hub is useful when you want to compare how many tracked vehicles, complaints, recalls, and ratings exist inside one model year across many manufacturers.

The complaint-heaviest year currently in this index is 2007, which makes it a strong place to inspect make-level spread before drilling into individual models. The most recall-heavy year in the current summary is 2021.

Best Research Moves

Use the year cards to spot which model years look busiest, then open the year detail page before comparing manufacturers.
From the year detail page, move into the make page and then the exact model page so the totals stay meaningful.
Treat year-level totals as navigation signals, not a direct ranking of overall vehicle quality.

Available Years

2026

Model year overview

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Vehicles: 191
Rated: 128
Complaints: 914
Recalls: 193

2025

Model year overview

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Vehicles: 223
Rated: 149
Complaints: 5,622
Recalls: 521

2024

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Vehicles: 252
Rated: 159
Complaints: 11,055
Recalls: 755

2023

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Vehicles: 269
Rated: 158
Complaints: 16,737
Recalls: 1,039

2022

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Vehicles: 268
Rated: 153
Complaints: 19,191
Recalls: 1,169

2021

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Vehicles: 263
Rated: 161
Complaints: 21,493
Recalls: 1,297

2020

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Vehicles: 270
Rated: 166
Complaints: 24,575
Recalls: 1,220

2019

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Vehicles: 269
Rated: 146
Complaints: 34,109
Recalls: 1,089

2018

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Vehicles: 260
Rated: 140
Complaints: 42,017
Recalls: 976

2017

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Vehicles: 256
Rated: 143
Complaints: 43,592
Recalls: 897

2016

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Vehicles: 246
Rated: 142
Complaints: 46,207
Recalls: 910

2015

Model year overview

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Vehicles: 241
Rated: 140
Complaints: 46,264
Recalls: 983

2014

Model year overview

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Vehicles: 238
Rated: 137
Complaints: 50,390
Recalls: 996

2013

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Vehicles: 232
Rated: 125
Complaints: 57,430
Recalls: 945

2012

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Vehicles: 237
Rated: 108
Complaints: 48,060
Recalls: 936

2011

Model year overview

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Vehicles: 239
Rated: 67
Complaints: 48,624
Recalls: 1,021

2010

Model year overview

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Vehicles: 242
Rated: 0
Complaints: 46,778
Recalls: 1,088

2009

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Vehicles: 242
Rated: 0
Complaints: 39,612
Recalls: 1,037

2008

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Vehicles: 238
Rated: 0
Complaints: 58,352
Recalls: 966

2007

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Vehicles: 230
Rated: 0
Complaints: 64,488
Recalls: 946

2006

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Vehicles: 217
Rated: 0
Complaints: 64,244
Recalls: 998

2005

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Vehicles: 205
Rated: 0
Complaints: 61,409
Recalls: 841

2004

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Vehicles: 192
Rated: 0
Complaints: 52,281
Recalls: 836

2003

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Vehicles: 176
Rated: 0
Complaints: 45,544
Recalls: 844

2002

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Vehicles: 160
Rated: 0
Complaints: 45,508
Recalls: 732

2001

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Vehicles: 149
Rated: 0
Complaints: 36,522
Recalls: 756

2000

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Vehicles: 138
Rated: 0
Complaints: 38,964
Recalls: 682

1999

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Vehicles: 18
Rated: 0
Complaints: 9,789
Recalls: 163

1998

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Vehicles: 17
Rated: 0
Complaints: 9,226
Recalls: 138

1997

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Vehicles: 21
Rated: 0
Complaints: 8,869
Recalls: 144

1996

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Vehicles: 20
Rated: 0
Complaints: 6,134
Recalls: 108

1995

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Vehicles: 19
Rated: 0
Complaints: 8,309
Recalls: 102

1994

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Vehicles: 14
Rated: 0
Complaints: 3,661
Recalls: 73

1993

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Vehicles: 10
Rated: 0
Complaints: 2,898
Recalls: 35

1992

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Vehicles: 11
Rated: 0
Complaints: 1,646
Recalls: 30

1991

Model year overview

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Vehicles: 11
Rated: 0
Complaints: 1,672
Recalls: 36

1990

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Vehicles: 11
Rated: 0
Complaints: 662
Recalls: 29

1989

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Vehicles: 8
Rated: 0
Complaints: 698
Recalls: 17

1988

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Vehicles: 4
Rated: 0
Complaints: 408
Recalls: 15

1987

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Vehicles: 2
Rated: 0
Complaints: 259
Recalls: 9

1986

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Vehicles: 2
Rated: 0
Complaints: 105
Recalls: 9

1985

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Vehicles: 1
Rated: 0
Complaints: 0
Recalls: 0

1984

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Vehicles: 1
Rated: 0
Complaints: 0
Recalls: 0

1983

Model year overview

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Vehicles: 1
Rated: 0
Complaints: 1
Recalls: 0

Data sourced from NHTSA public records. Complaint counts reflect unverified consumer reports and may not indicate confirmed defects. Year totals include only indexable vehicle pages currently available on this site.

A model year summary is most useful for routing your research. For meaningful comparison, keep moving from year to make to exact model year rather than treating one aggregate year total as a final safety score.

Latest vehicle import recorded anywhere on this site: Oct 8, 2026. Individual vehicles and datasets may have older records; this is not this page's update date.