Model years Chevrolet Corvette
2011 Chevrolet Corvette
This year drew an ordinary 85 complaints for a Chevrolet Corvette — the model's median is 64. What they were about is the unusual part: 8.2% of them mention correctly, against 1.3% across the other years of this generation.
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.
| Complaints filed | 85 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 64 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- correctly — 8.2% of this year's complaints, against 1.3% across the other years of this generation (6.2×). Owners wrote it as: correctly, return.
- date — 8.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.5% across the other years of this generation (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: date, off driving, car think.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
GAS SMELL IN GARAGE AFTER VEHICLE IS PARKED. HAPPENS RANDOMLY AND GAS CAP HAS BEEN VERIFIED TO BE CLOSED CORRECTLY. ALSO HAS FUMES INSIDE CAR AFTER BEING PARKED UNDER THE SAME CIRCUMSTANCES.
I BOUGHT THE 2011 CHEVROLET CORVETTE ABOUT A YEARS, DROVE IT LESS THEN 2000 MILE, ALWAYS FILL GAS CORRECTLY BUT THIS FOLLOWING WEEK I GOT A LEAK SOMEWHERE ON MY LEFT FUEL TANK AND IT SMELLING BAD IN MY PARKING GARAGE, FUEL LEAK ON THE DRIVER SIDE RANK.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 11V491000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
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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