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Model years to avoid

Hyundai Santa Fe Sport

What it says about you

Opinion

The two-row one, named confusingly, bought by people who did not want the third row.

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

6 model years on record, 1,261 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.

  • engine engine 2013, 2014 peak 8.1% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2018 4 recalls 414 complaints
  2. 2017 3 recalls 345 complaints
  3. 2016 1 recall 66 complaints
  4. 2015 3 recalls 81 complaints
  5. 2014 5 recalls 160 complaints
  6. 2013 6 recalls 195 complaints

What does a Hyundai Santa Fe Sport 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.