2021 Subaru Forester
This year drew 207 complaints against a median of 105 across the Subaru Forester's other years, 2× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at.
Generation 4 of the Subaru Forester, which began in 2019 and ran to 2024. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 207 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 105 |
| Involving a crash | 16 |
| Involving a fire | 5 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 29 mpg |
How this was worked out
Every year of the Subaru Forester 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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