2014 Toyota Corolla
This year drew an ordinary 267 complaints for a Toyota Corolla — the model's median is 212. What they were about is the unusual part: 8.6% of them mention corolla driving, against 3.3% across the other years of this generation.
First year of a new generation. The Toyota Corolla was redesigned for 2014. 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 | 267 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 212 |
| Involving a crash | 64 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 32 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- corolla driving — 8.6% of this year's complaints, against 3.3% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: corolla driving, pedal depressed.
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
- 13V505000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 20V024000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota Corolla 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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