Model Year Scorecard · NHTSA + EPA data

Fiat model years compared

Every Fiat model in the catalogue (1947–2026), 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.

1,320
Owner complaints
filed with NHTSA, most on the 500
52
Recall campaigns
distinct NHTSA campaigns, most on the 500X
0
Urgent advisories
do-not-drive & park-outside campaigns
137
Fatal-crash vehicles
FARS census, 2020 onward, exact

Fiat models ranked by complaints

Fiat models ranked by NHTSA owner complaints across all model years
Model Years Complaints Recalls Urgent Fatal (FARS) MPG
500 1947–2019 (26)
807
5 87 31.2
500L 2014–2020 (7)
209
4 25
500X 2016–2024 (9)
187
6 17 26
124 Spider 2017–2020 (4)
65
3 8 30
500E 2024–2026 (3)
52
6 116
Strada 1979–2014 (12)
3
Albea catalogue only 2009–2011 (3)
Argo catalogue only 2021–2025 (5)
Ducato catalogue only 2008–2023 (15)
Fastback catalogue only 2024–2025 (2)
Idea catalogue only 2008–2009 (2)
Mobi catalogue only 2017–2024 (8)
Palio catalogue only 2004–2020 (16)
Panda catalogue only 2007–2012 (5)
Pulse catalogue only 2022–2026 (5)
Punto catalogue only 2007–2013 (4)
Uno catalogue only 2013–2020 (8)

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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.