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Pick any two of 748 tracked vehicles and see how their NHTSA complaint and recall records stack up, no spreadsheet required.
Source data: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation complaints and recall campaigns (1995–2026). Methodology: /methodology. Complaint counts are raw volume, not a per-vehicle defect rate.
Every figure on PlainCars is rendered directly from NHTSA complaint and safety data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on NHTSA complaint and safety data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.