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	32,288
2	Honda11 models	31,904
3	Chevrolet18 models	26,614
4	Jeep9 models	24,474
5	Hyundai14 models	19,217
6	Toyota26 models	18,756
7	Kia15 models	17,276
8	Ram5 models	13,946
9	Subaru10 models	13,784
10	Nissan15 models	13,552
11	GMC8 models	12,667
12	Volkswagen11 models	7,967
13	Dodge6 models	6,576
14	Tesla5 models	5,004
15	Acura7 models	4,497
16	Chrysler3 models	4,098
17	BMW17 models	3,544
18	Mazda12 models	3,441
19	Audi16 models	3,162
20	Lincoln8 models	2,138
21	Buick7 models	2,015
22	Cadillac11 models	1,814
23	Mitsubishi6 models	1,702
24	Infiniti8 models	1,192
25	Genesis6 models	822

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 Aug 31, 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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