2016 Mazda CX-3
This year drew 48 complaints against a median of 10 across the Mazda CX-3's other years, 4.8× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at. It has 3 recalls, listed below.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 48 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 10 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 30 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 16V644000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 16V203000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 23V487000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Mazda CX-3 was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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