Model Year Scorecard · NHTSA + EPA data

Nissan model years compared

Every Nissan model in the catalogue (1982–2027), 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.

70,119
Owner complaints
filed with NHTSA, most on the Altima
386
Recall campaigns
distinct NHTSA campaigns, most on the Sentra
5
Urgent advisories
do-not-drive & park-outside campaigns
15,884
Fatal-crash vehicles
FARS census, 2020 onward, exact

Nissan models ranked by complaints

Nissan models ranked by NHTSA owner complaints across all model years
Model Years Complaints Recalls Urgent Fatal (FARS) MPG
Altima 1993–2026 (34)
15,450
51 4,234 26.4
Pathfinder 1987–2027 (41)
7,338
48 1 795 19.2
Rogue 2008–2026 (19)
7,210
41 1,920 29.4
Maxima 1984–2023 (40)
6,952
24 1 1,056 22.1
Murano 2003–2027 (25)
5,943
24 1 713 21.9
Sentra 1982–2027 (46)
5,938
54 1 2,233 28.6
Frontier 1998–2026 (29)
3,342
39 1,053 19.6
Versa 2007–2025 (19)
3,317
26 1,039 29.4
Titan 2004–2024 (20)
3,256
34 591 15.5
Xterra 2000–2015 (16)
3,099
21 366 17.9
Quest 1993–2017 (23)
2,121
24 137 19.4
Armada 2005–2027 (22)
1,842
19 314 15.4
LEAF 2011–2027 (17)
1,093
19 1 25 110.7
350Z 2003–2009 (7)
657
3 170 19.3
Kicks 2017–2027 (11)
504
10 202 32.4
Juke 2011–2017 (7)
478
7 150 28.5
370Z 2009–2021 (13)
360
2 93 20.9
Rogue Sport 2017–2022 (6)
339
2 248 28
Versa Note 2014–2019 (6)
264
8 177
Cube 2009–2014 (6)
217
4 55 27.2
Titan XD 2016–2024 (9)
197
2
Pickup 1984–2010 (27)
60
174 26
ARIYA 2023–2026 (4)
50
3 6 101
GT-R 2009–2024 (15)
33
4 8 18.3
NV200 2013–2021 (9)
33
3 78 24.2
NV3500 2012–2021 (10)
19
1 2
Z 2023–2026 (4)
4
2 22
NV1500 2012–2021 (10)
2
1
NV2500 2012–2021 (10)
1
1
Almera catalogue only 2001–2005 (5)
Altra EV catalogue only 1999–2001 (3)
85
Aprio catalogue only 2008–2010 (3)
Cabstar catalogue only 2008–2016 (8)
Cabstar E catalogue only 2008–2009 (2)
Kicks e-Power catalogue only 2023–2025 (3)
Lucino catalogue only 1996–2000 (5)
March catalogue only 2012–2025 (14)
Micra catalogue only 1984–2019 (16)
NP300 catalogue only 2009–2026 (18)
NP300 Frontier catalogue only 2016–2020 (5)
NT400 Cabstar catalogue only 2017–2018 (2)
NV350 Urvan catalogue only 2014–2025 (12)
Note catalogue only 2014–2019 (6)
Platina catalogue only 2002–2010 (9)
Qashqai catalogue only 2017–2023 (7)
Rogue Select catalogue only 2014–2015 (2)
45 25
Tiida catalogue only 2007–2018 (12)
Tsubame catalogue only 1993–2004 (12)
Tsuru catalogue only 1984–2017 (34)
Urvan catalogue only 2000–2013 (14)
V-Drive catalogue only 2020–2025 (6)
X-Trail catalogue only 2002–2026 (25)

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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.