Model Year Scorecard · NHTSA + EPA data

Land Rover model years compared

Every Land Rover model in the catalogue (1970–2026), 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.

4,041
Owner complaints
filed with NHTSA, most on the Range Rover
168
Recall campaigns
distinct NHTSA campaigns, most on the Range Rover
2
Urgent advisories
do-not-drive & park-outside campaigns
416
Fatal-crash vehicles
FARS census, 2020 onward, exact

Land Rover models ranked by complaints

Land Rover models ranked by NHTSA owner complaints across all model years
Model Years Complaints Recalls Urgent Fatal (FARS) MPG
Range Rover 1970–2026 (45)
951
72 97 17.5
Range Rover Sport 2006–2026 (21)
625
51 118 19.4
Discovery 1994–2026 (24)
540
22 31 18.9
Freelander 1999–2006 (8)
455
6 1 17
Range Rover Evoque 2012–2026 (15)
386
25 1 49 23.2
Defender 2011–2016 (6)
295
18 14
LR2 2008–2015 (8)
181
4 18 18.5
Discovery Sport 2015–2026 (12)
175
14 1 23 20.8
LR3 2005–2009 (5)
175
6 18 14
LR4 2010–2016 (7)
139
7 17 14.7
Range Rover Velar 2018–2026 (9)
111
12 30 23.8
Defender 90 1994–2026 (9)
7
16.1
Defender 110 1993–2026 (8)
1
16.8
Defender 130 catalogue only 2023–2026 (4)
17

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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.