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Model years to avoid

Hyundai Genesis

What it says about you

Opinion

The car that proved Hyundai could build a proper rear-drive saloon, before it became its own brand. You were early.

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

10 model years on record, 1,425 complaints filed. No year stood out against this model's own history — which means it has not drawn unusual complaints, not that it is a good car.

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.

  • brake 2009, 2011 peak 62% of that year's complaints
  • outside 2015, 2016 peak 7.2% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2018 0 recalls 3 complaints
  2. 2016 3 recalls 95 complaints
  3. 2015 6 recalls 305 complaints
  4. 2014 0 recalls 23 complaints
  5. 2013 0 recalls 195 complaints
  6. 2012 2 recalls 269 complaints
  7. 2011 3 recalls 144 complaints
  8. 2010 3 recalls 156 complaints
  9. 2009 3 recalls 234 complaints
  10. 2008 0 recalls 1 complaints

What does a Hyundai Genesis 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.