2023 Toyota Corolla
This year drew an ordinary 72 complaints for a Toyota Corolla — the model's median is 219. What they were about is the unusual part: 29.2% of them mention steering, against 8.3% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 4 of the Toyota Corolla, which began in 2020. 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 | 72 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 219 |
| Involving a crash | 8 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 34.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- steering — 29.2% of this year's complaints, against 8.3% across the other years of this generation (3.5×).
- intersection — 6.9% of this year's complaints, against 0.4% across the other years of this generation (16×).
- screen — 13.9% of this year's complaints, against 4.6% across the other years of this generation (3×). Owners wrote it as: screen, unexpectedly, goes.
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
My Toyota, the 12.3-inch display screen fails to turn on when I start the vehicles or could unexpectedly shut down while driving.
while driving at an undisclosed speed, the infotainment screen unexpectedly turned on and off. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, who determined that the infotainment system needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not made a…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V480000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 24V878000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 25V040000 STEERING 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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