Original data research from the PlainCars editorial team. Every page is rendered server-side from a live SELECT against the portal database; no numbers are hardcoded.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data ranking U.S. vehicle manufacturers by total volume of consumer complaints filed in the NHTSA database. Rendered server-side from a live SELECT against the PlainCars makes table — every number on the page derives from the current NHTSA ETL snapshot.
PlainCars ranks U.S. vehicle nameplates by total consumer complaints filed in the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation database. Live SSR query against the models table — the ranking reflects the most recent NHTSA ETL ingest.
Component-level breakdown of the NHTSA consumer complaint dataset. PlainCars ranks vehicle subsystems by the total number of complaints citing that component, with parallel counts of crash, fire, and injury incidents in the same complaint record. Rendered live from the component_summary table.