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Model years to avoid

Chevrolet Corvette

What it says about you

Opinion

America's sports car, and you have heard every joke about who buys one. The car is genuinely, embarrassingly good, which is your answer.

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

23 model years on record, 3,195 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2017 (grand sport), 2008 (parked garage), 2007 (out park), 2006 (roof), 2005 (active handling). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

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.

  • bent 2018, 2019 peak 35.4% of that year's complaints
  • bumper 2018, 2019 peak 17.6% of that year's complaints
  • fill 2008, 2014 peak 13.1% of that year's complaints
  • claim 2017, 2019 peak 10.2% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2027 nothing on record 0 complaints
  2. 2026 0 recalls 2 complaints
  3. 2025 3 recalls 20 complaints
  4. 2024 2 recalls 20 complaints
  5. 2023 1 recall 24 complaints
  6. 2022 1 recall 20 complaints
  7. 2021 2 recalls 12 complaints
  8. 2020 4 recalls 34 complaints
  9. 2019 1 recall 147 complaints
  10. 2018 1 recall 51 complaints
  11. 2017 grand sport 255 complaints
  12. 2016 2 recalls 103 complaints
  13. 2015 5 recalls 64 complaints
  14. 2014 5 recalls 61 complaints
  15. 2013 0 recalls 82 complaints
  16. 2012 1 recall 56 complaints
  17. 2011 1 recall 85 complaints
  18. 2010 0 recalls 84 complaints
  19. 2009 0 recalls 152 complaints
  20. 2008 parked garage 588 complaints
  21. 2007 out park 385 complaints
  22. 2006 roof 413 complaints
  23. 2005 active handling 537 complaints

What does a Chevrolet Corvette 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.