Manufacturers with the most owner complaints

Name: Manufacturers with the most owner complaints
Creator: Verify the Vehicle

Manufacturers ranked by total owner complaints. Complaint volume tracks how many vehicles are on the road at least as strongly as it tracks any defect, so read it alongside sales scale.

#	Entity	complaints
1	Ford13 models	33,958
2	Honda11 models	33,379
3	Chevrolet18 models	27,370
4	Jeep9 models	25,061
5	Hyundai14 models	19,666
6	Toyota26 models	19,417
7	Kia15 models	17,960
8	Ram5 models	14,387
9	Subaru10 models	13,992
10	Nissan15 models	13,964
11	GMC8 models	12,959
12	Volkswagen11 models	8,257
13	Dodge6 models	6,690
14	Tesla5 models	5,017
15	Acura7 models	4,636
16	Chrysler3 models	4,296
17	BMW17 models	3,725
18	Mazda12 models	3,528
19	Audi16 models	3,240
20	Lincoln8 models	2,311
21	Buick7 models	2,081
22	Cadillac11 models	1,948
23	Mitsubishi6 models	1,730
24	Infiniti8 models	1,236
25	Genesis6 models	902

Methodology & limitations

Included: 2,548 vehicles across 37 makes and 328 models.
Excluded: Vehicles with no substantive safety dataset (excluded from the index entirely).
Date range: Model years 2015–2025.
Sample size: 37 ranked entities
Calculation: Sum of NHTSA owner complaints across each manufacturer's indexed vehicles.
Data freshness: Dataset last synchronized Oct 19, 2026.

Limitations

Figures are raw counts. Verify the Vehicle holds no vehicle sales or registration data, so nothing here is normalized into a rate — a high-volume nameplate will tend to show more of everything.
Coverage is limited to the 37 makes and model years 2015–2025 currently in the index, not the entire US fleet.

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