Model Year Scorecard · NHTSA + EPA data

American Coach model years compared

Every American Coach model in the catalogue (2002–2026), with owner complaints, recall campaigns, urgent advisories and fatal-crash involvement summed across all model years. Open a model to see its years side by side and the best and worst year called out.

12
Owner complaints
filed with NHTSA, most on the American Tradition
12
Recall campaigns
distinct NHTSA campaigns, most on the American Eagle
0
Urgent advisories
do-not-drive & park-outside campaigns
Fatal-crash vehicles
FARS census, 2020 onward, exact

American Coach models ranked by complaints

American Coach models ranked by NHTSA owner complaints across all model years
Model Years Complaints Recalls Urgent Fatal (FARS) MPG
American Tradition 2002–2023 (8)
6
5
American Eagle 2004–2026 (9)
4
8
American Dream 2020–2026 (7)
1
5
American Patriot 2020–2024 (5)
1
American Heritage 2008–2015 (2)
3
American Patriot Cruiser catalogue only 2020–2024 (5)

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Sources. Owner complaints, recall campaigns and advisories are from the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation datasets; fatal-crash vehicles from FARS; fuel economy from the EPA. VehDB sums them per model; the figures are not VehDB's own findings.

How to read it. Complaints and recalls are summed over every catalogue year of the model, so long-running best-sellers rank high on volume alone; the model page ranks each year against other vehicles of the same model year, which is the fairer read. Urgent counts do-not-drive and park-outside campaigns. Fatal (FARS) is a census of vehicles in fatal crashes from 2020 onward, exact, and is never mixed with CRSS estimates. MPG is the EPA combined average across the model's trims. Sources are U.S. public domain; nothing here is a verified defect finding.