2006 Subaru Impreza
This year drew an ordinary 56 complaints for a Subaru Impreza — the model's median is 75. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.1% of them mention result, against 2% across the model's other years.
Generation 1 of the Subaru Impreza, which began in 2002 and ran to 2007. 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 | 56 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 75 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Recalls | 10 |
| EPA combined | 20 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- result — 7.1% of this year's complaints, against 2% across the model's other years (3.6×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
Recalls for this year
- 20V003000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 20V002000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 20V001000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 11V464000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 17V026000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V014000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V016000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V359000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 10. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Subaru Impreza 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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