2022 Toyota Corolla
This year drew an ordinary 95 complaints for a Toyota Corolla — the model's median is 219. What they were about is the unusual part: 21.1% of them mention driving mph, against 8.2% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 4 of the Toyota Corolla, which began in 2020. 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 | 95 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 219 |
| Involving a crash | 12 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 33 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- driving mph — 21.1% of this year's complaints, against 8.2% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: driving mph, nor, police report, dealer nor.
- pressed — 6.3% of this year's complaints, against 2.3% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: pressed, service department, stop car.
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
while driving 15 MPH, while the transmission was shifting into second gear, and attempting to depress the clutch pedal, the clutch pedal depressed to the floorboard. The contact was assisted by a bystander with the failure. A dealer was contacted. The vehicle…
the low tire pressure warning light would frequently appear on the instrument panel due to low tire pressure on all four tires. The contact also stated that a loud, whining noise would emit from all four tires while driving at various speeds. The dealer nor th…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota Corolla 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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