Volkswagen Atlas
What it says about you
Opinion
VW finally building something American-sized, about fifteen years after being asked. Big, plain, and it works.
Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.
10 model years on record, 1,913 complaints filed.
The years to look at closely: 2021 (windows), 2019 (time recall), 2018 (battery). 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.
Every year
- 2027 nothing on record 0 complaints
- 2026 2 recalls 5 complaints
- 2025 5 recalls 40 complaints
- 2024 8 recalls 162 complaints
- 2023 5 recalls 123 complaints
- 2022 7 recalls 175 complaints
- 2021 windows 454 complaints
- 2020 4 recalls 27 complaints
- 2019 time recall 468 complaints
- 2018 battery 459 complaints
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.
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