Model Year Scorecard · NHTSA + EPA data

Ram model years compared

Every Ram model in the catalogue (2011–2027), 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.

19,354
Owner complaints
filed with NHTSA, most on the 1500
188
Recall campaigns
distinct NHTSA campaigns, most on the 1500
9
Urgent advisories
do-not-drive & park-outside campaigns
4,828
Fatal-crash vehicles
FARS census, 2020 onward, exact

Ram models ranked by complaints

Ram models ranked by NHTSA owner complaints across all model years
Model Years Complaints Recalls Urgent Fatal (FARS) MPG
1500 2011–2027 (17)
11,602
91 1 2,721 21.1
2500 2011–2027 (17)
5,073
64 2 985
3500 2011–2026 (16)
2,326
62 2 603
5500 2011–2026 (16)
153
42 2 190
ProMaster City 2015–2022 (8)
100
8 49 24
4500 2011–2026 (16)
47
41 2 76
ProMaster 2500 2014–2026 (13)
32
86
ProMaster 3500 2014–2026 (13)
16
51
ProMaster 1500 2014–2026 (13)
5
67
700 catalogue only 2015–2025 (11)
1200 catalogue only 2025–2026 (2)
1500 Classic catalogue only 2019–2024 (6)
18.8
4000 catalogue only 2011–2026 (16)
C/V catalogue only 2012–2015 (4)
20.6
ProMaster EV catalogue only 2025–2026 (2)
ProMaster Rapid catalogue only 2017–2024 (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.