2016 Cadillac Ats-V
Complaints about this year name car far more often than the model's other years — 42% of them, about 105× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 62 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 1 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
Also unusual this year
- driving — 35% of complaints, 89× usual
- time — 23% of complaints, 56× usual
- out — 23% of complaints, 56× usual
What owners wrote
Transmission drags. When stopping the car jerks bad and sometimes proceeds to accelerate. When at a stop auto start has a hard jerk I reported this problem to Cadillac dealership when I first got the car. They claim they couldn't find an issue. The touch pad g…
DROVE MY CAR ON THE HIGHWAY AND THE BRAKES FAILED. I APPLIED ALL OF MY FORCE TO GET THE CAR TO STOP. THIS IS THE SECOND TIME THE BRAKES FAILED WHILE DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY IN LESS THAN 14 MONTHS. HAD IT REPAIRED THE FIRST TIME. IT HAD NO BRAKE ASSIST AND A CRA…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Cadillac Ats-V was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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