Chevrolet Camaro

Which Chevrolet Camaro years should you avoid?

Going by 2,965 owner complaints filed with NHTSA, the Chevrolet Camaro years to avoid are 2012, 2010, 1994, 1995 and 2015.

• 20124.3× the usual share of fires, crashes and deaths for a car of its age (4 fires, 10 crashes, 3 deaths).
• 2010295 complaints, 2.9× a typical Camaro year, most often about the airbags.
• 19942.5× the usual share of fires, crashes and deaths for a car of its age (19 fires, 21 crashes, 3 deaths).
• 1995216 complaints, 2.1× a typical Camaro year, most often about the brakes.
• 2015206 complaints, 2.0× a typical Camaro year, most often about the electrical system.

Better bets: among years old enough for a low count to mean something, the 2019 drew the fewest complaints without an unusual share of serious ones.

How this is worked out: each year is compared with a typical year of the same model, which takes most of the difference in sales out of it, and its share of serious failures is compared with every other car of the same model year, because older cars were complained about differently. A year needs 25 complaints to be judged at all. Complaints are unverified owner reports. Full method →