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Model years to avoid

Hyundai Kona

What it says about you

Opinion

Small, cheerful, and styled with more confidence than the segment expected. You liked that it did not look like everything else.

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

10 model years on record, 905 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2021 (mechanic), 2019 (mechanic). 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.

  • mechanic 2018, 2019 peak 18.9% of that year's complaints
  • engine however 2019, 2020 peak 14.9% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2027 nothing on record 0 complaints
  2. 2026 3 recalls 8 complaints
  3. 2025 0 recalls 28 complaints
  4. 2024 3 recalls 45 complaints
  5. 2023 1 recall 63 complaints
  6. 2022 0 recalls 96 complaints
  7. 2021 mechanic 252 complaints
  8. 2020 2 recalls 154 complaints
  9. 2019 mechanic 185 complaints
  10. 2018 0 recalls 74 complaints

What does a Hyundai Kona 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.