2016 Porsche Panamera
This year drew an ordinary 42 complaints for a Porsche Panamera — the model's median is 14. What they were about is the unusual part: 66.7% of them mention several, against 2.4% across the model's other years.
Last year of its generation. This Porsche Panamera ran from 2010 to 2016, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 42 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 14 |
| Involving a crash | 14 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 20 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- several — 66.7% of this year's complaints, against 2.4% across the model's other years (27.3×).
- made — 66.7% of this year's complaints, against 10.9% across the model's other years (6.1×).
- aware — 66.7% of this year's complaints, against 17.1% across the model's other years (3.9×).
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
a phone call and was notified of NHTSA Campaign Number: 22V656000 (Exterior Lighting) however, the part to do the recall repair was not yet available. The dealer notified the contact of the recall and confirmed that parts were not yet available. The manufactur…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V446000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 19V533000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V322000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 22V656000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Porsche Panamera 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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