Honda Insight

Which Honda Insight years should you avoid?

Going by 519 owner complaints filed with NHTSA, the Honda Insight years to avoid are 2010 and 2019.

• 2010119 complaints, 2.8× a typical Insight year, most often about the airbags; and 5.1× the usual share of fires, crashes and deaths for a car of its age (0 fires, 21 crashes, 2 deaths).
• 2019101 complaints, 2.3× a typical Insight year, most often about the fuel system.

Better bets: among years old enough for a low count to mean something, the 2021 and 2022 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 →