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2007 Chevrolet Corvette

Complaints about this year name out park far more often than the other years of this generation — 7% of them, about 5× the usual rate of 1.2%.

Generation 1 of the Chevrolet Corvette, which began in 2005 and ran to 2013. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

Also unusual this year

• shift — 7% of complaints, 3× usual
• speed — 7% of complaints, 3× usual

What owners wrote

CAR GETS STUCK IN GEAR, CANNOT SHIFT INTO REVERSE, DRIVE ETC. CONTROL PART#25913058 (GM) VERY DANGEROUS IF IN TRAFFIC AND PUT CAR I NEUTRAL AND CAN'T GET IT OUT OF GEAR WITH CARS SPEEDING BY. CHEVROLET REFUSES TO REIMBURSE FOR PARTS AND LABOR. MILEAGE-29,994.

THE AIR BAG LIGHT ILLUMINATES INTERMITTENTLY AT ALL SPEEDS AND ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS.

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 14V251000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
• 09V491000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.

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How this was worked out

Every year of the Chevrolet Corvette was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.

This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.

Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.

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