Model years Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen
2016 Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen
This year drew 56 complaints against a median of 12 across the Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen's other years, 4.7× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at. It has 3 recalls, listed below.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 56 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 12 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 28.5 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 18V464000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 22V543000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 24V110000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen 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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