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Model years to avoid

Buick Lucerne

What it says about you

Opinion

The LeSabre's replacement, still soft, briefly available with a V8. You wanted comfort and got it.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

6 model years on record, 943 complaints filed. No year stood out against this model's own history — which means it has not drawn unusual complaints, not that it is a good car.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • burned 2008, 2009 peak 17.2% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2011 2 recalls 49 complaints
  2. 2010 2 recalls 54 complaints
  3. 2009 2 recalls 128 complaints
  4. 2008 3 recalls 218 complaints
  5. 2007 4 recalls 164 complaints
  6. 2006 4 recalls 330 complaints

What does a Buick Lucerne say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.