2007 Chevrolet Impala
This year drew an ordinary 627 complaints for a Chevrolet Impala — the model's median is 505. What they were about is the unusual part: 16.7% of them mention police, against 6.2% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Chevrolet Impala, which began in 2006 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 | 627 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 505 |
| Involving a crash | 52 |
| Involving a fire | 10 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| EPA combined | 21.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- police — 16.7% of this year's complaints, against 6.2% across the other years of this generation (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: police, police report, attention, sustained.
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
THE CONTACT OWNED A 2007 CHEVROLET IMPALA. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING AT 35 MPH, THE VEHICLE REAR ENDED ANOTHER VEHICLE. THE AIR BAGS FAILED TO DEPLOY. A POLICE REPORT WAS FILED. THE CONTACT SUSTAINED INJURIES TO THE LOWER BACK AND SHOULDERS. IT WAS…
WHILE MAKING A LEFT TURN AT AN UNKNOWN SPEED, ANOTHER VEHICLE CRASHED INTO THE DRIVER SIDE OF THE CONTACT'S VEHICLE. THE AIR BAGS FAILED TO DEPLOY. A POLICE REPORT WAS FILED. THE CONTACT SUSTAINED BACK INJURIES AND THE PASSENGER SUSTAINED BACK AND NECK INJURIE…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 14V355000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 09E005000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 06V419000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Impala 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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