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2014 Cadillac ATS

Complaints about this year name shifter far more often than the model's other years — 9% of them, about 22× the usual rate of 0.4%.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

Also unusual this year

• under — 14% of complaints, 5× usual
• other — 17% of complaints, 3× usual
• engine — 17% of complaints, 3× usual

What owners wrote

AFRAID TO DRIVE MY VEHICLE. I TOOK THE VEHICLE IN UNDER WARRANTY BECAUSE THE CAR LOST POWER ON THE OFF RAMP FROM THE HIGHWAY. THE AIR CONDITIONING SHUT OFF, AND I THEN NOTICED NOTHING ON THE CAR WAS WORKING, BRAKES, STEERING, ENGINE!! THE DEALER COULD NOT DUPL…

MY NEW CADILLAC WITH ONLY 6700 MILES ON IT HAD TO HAVE A BRAND NEW ENGINE PUT IT BECAUSE OF BAD PISTONS. THIS IS A VERY COMMON THING FOR CADILLAC ATS MODELS. IF YOU GO ON THE CADILLAC FORUMS WEBSITE, YOU WILL SEE MANY OTHER CADILLAC OWNERS HAVING THE SAME PROB…

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 15V558000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
• 15V463000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
• 14V446000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
• 14V338000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.

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How this was worked out

Every year of the Cadillac ATS 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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