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Model years to avoid

Honda Insight

What it says about you

Opinion

Fuel economy as a personality, in the politest possible way. You know your lifetime average and you know it is good.

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

11 model years on record, 455 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2019 (fuel), 2010 (takata recall). 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.

  • oil 2012, 2013 peak 62.7% of that year's complaints
  • consumption 2012, 2013 peak 40% of that year's complaints
  • bags 2010, 2011 peak 40% of that year's complaints
  • vin 2010, 2011 peak 30% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2022 3 recalls 31 complaints
  2. 2021 3 recalls 24 complaints
  3. 2020 6 recalls 31 complaints
  4. 2019 fuel 97 complaints
  5. 2014 3 recalls 5 complaints
  6. 2013 6 recalls 45 complaints
  7. 2012 8 recalls 59 complaints
  8. 2011 10 recalls 40 complaints
  9. 2010 takata recall 119 complaints
  10. 2006 1 recall 2 complaints
  11. 2005 0 recalls 2 complaints

What does a Honda Insight 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.