2025 Toyota Camry
This year drew an ordinary 144 complaints for a Toyota Camry — the model's median is 435. What they were about is the unusual part: 15.3% of them mention may, against 4.5% across the model's other years.
First year of a new generation. The Toyota Camry was redesigned for 2025. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 144 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 435 |
| Involving a crash | 13 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 47 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- may — 15.3% of this year's complaints, against 4.5% across the model's other years (3.4×).
- driver seat — 16.7% of this year's complaints, against 6.5% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: driver seat, loose, distracting, makes.
- collision — 15.3% of this year's complaints, against 5.5% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: collision, accidents, unintended, speed vehicle.
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.
What owners wrote
The driver seat pops and shifts around unexpectedly when driving. It feels like I am going to loose control of the vehicle as I have to adjust my seating position while the car is in motion. And this movement is very distracting. Visited dealership twice alrea…
The driver's seat constantly pops during acceleration and braking or going over bumps in the road, which is distracting to the driver and may cause an accident due to popping sensation in the middle of the driver's back.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 25V595000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota Camry 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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