Model years to avoid

Cadillac ATS

What it says about you

Opinion

Cadillac's genuine attempt at a 3 Series, which handled beautifully and had an infotainment system that undid it. You forgave the screen.

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

7 model years on record, 445 complaints filed. That is too few to measure against. Every finding on this site compares a year with the same model's other years, and that needs about 40 complaints in a year and 4 years to compare it with. This nameplate has 3. So nothing is claimed either way — the recalls and ratings below are the record, and they are the whole record.

The years to look at closely: 2016 (got), 2014 (shifter), 2013 (engine). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

Every year

  1. 2019 0 recalls 3 complaints
  2. 2018 2 recalls 21 complaints
  3. 2017 2 recalls 33 complaints
  4. 2016 got 97 complaints
  5. 2015 4 recalls 29 complaints
  6. 2014 shifter 102 complaints
  7. 2013 engine 160 complaints

What does a Cadillac ATS 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.