Vehicle safety recalls are common these days. Every week, we post a weekly roundup of recalls on the CarPro website, that we also share in the Car Pro Radio Show newsletter. Recalls are important and should never be ignored. Car Pro Show host Jerry Reynolds writes about the things you need to know about recalls, here.
iSeeCars addresses recalls in its a new report that identifies the vehicles most and least likely to have recalls in the future, based on its analysis of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) data. Overall, researchers say that in 2023, NHTSA issued more than 300 vehicle recalls - recalls that involved more than 35 million cars.
iSeeCars says it's reasonable to assume a car will experience at least one recall over the course of its usable lifespan because cars are complex, mass-produced machines. But after analyzing the latest recall data from NHTSA, iSeeCars says it identified the 25 cars with the most projected lifetime recalls and determined that their projected recalls are much greater than a typical car. The Porsche Taycan EV has the most projected lifetime recalls at 70.7, while Tesla’s Model Y and Model 3 closely follow in positions 2 and 3, with 66.9 and 60.7 projected recalls, respectively.
Here are some of the other highlights of the study:
- Tesla’s entire model line occupies four of the seven slots for most projected recalls; Lucid is in position 5
- When over-the-air (OTA) recalls are excluded, Tesla drops out of top 25 most recalled list
- Six of top seven most projected recalled vehicles are EVs
- MINI, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz and Audi are among the least recalled cars
iSeeCars says the most recalled cars have quite a bit more lifetime recalls than the industry median of 3.2, and substantially more than the 25 least recalled cars, which are projected to have less than one recall over the course of a 30-year lifespan. The MINI Convertible leads the industry with just 0.2 projected recalls, followed by the Lexus ES 300h, RX 450h, and NX 300h each having 0.3 projected lifetime recalls. Researchers say these projections are based on NHTSA recall campaigns data for 2015-2024 model year cars.
To see the entire list of the projected 25 most & least recalled vehicles, and more, visit iSeeCars here.
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