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Model years to avoid

Ford Fiesta

What it says about you

Opinion

Genuinely good to drive, cheap, and let down by a gearbox that made itself famous. Whether yours is a happy story depends entirely on that.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

9 model years on record, 3,154 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2013 (door), 2011 (door). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • referred contact 2016, 2017 peak 11% of that year's complaints
  • acceleration 2013, 2014 peak 9.4% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2019 3 recalls 96 complaints
  2. 2018 0 recalls 35 complaints
  3. 2017 0 recalls 73 complaints
  4. 2016 0 recalls 178 complaints
  5. 2015 4 recalls 258 complaints
  6. 2014 7 recalls 502 complaints
  7. 2013 door 667 complaints
  8. 2012 3 recalls 616 complaints
  9. 2011 door 729 complaints

What does a Ford Fiesta say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.