2025 Vehicle Safety Complaints

The 2025 model year cohort has accumulated 9,205 NHTSA consumer safety complaints across 335 nameplates from 44 manufacturers — a cross-section of everything the Office of Defects Investigation has filed for vehicles whose model year stamp reads 2025. Severity indicators inside this cohort include 723 crash reports, 60 fire incidents, and 10 reported fatalities, all owner-submitted through NHTSA's public complaint portal.

Inside the 2025 cohort, the RAM 1500 leads the complaint count with 353 filings, followed by the HYUNDAI TUCSON and the HONDA CR-V. On the component side, the most frequently cited category for the 2025 year class is electrical system (1,395 complaints), ahead of unknown or other and service brakes. Comparing a single model year against adjacent years is one of the cleanest ways to detect platform-level supplier changes: a sharp year-over-year jump in a specific component, concentrated on a handful of nameplates sharing an architecture, is the classic early-warning signature that regulators and insurance actuaries flag.

Remember that complaint volume is not a reliability ranking. Newer model years have spent less time on the road and therefore accumulate fewer filings, while older model years may be artificially quiet because few examples are still registered. NHTSA's Early Warning Reporting system weights complaints per registered vehicle, not just raw counts, when deciding whether to open a Preliminary Evaluation on a 2025 cohort. Drill into any model in the table below to see its component-level breakdown, safety rating, and recall history — and compare against the 2024 and 2026 cohorts to spot year-over-year discontinuities that point to real defect patterns rather than statistical noise.