Hyundai Veloster

Which Hyundai Veloster years should you avoid?

Going by 1,298 owner complaints filed with NHTSA, the Hyundai Veloster years to avoid are 2013, 2012 and 2016.

• 2013427 complaints, 3.8× a typical Veloster year, most often about the engine.
• 2012296 complaints, 2.7× a typical Veloster year, most often about the engine.
• 2016225 complaints, 2.0× a typical Veloster year, most often about the engine.

Better bets: among years old enough for a low count to mean something, the 2020, 2019 and 2017 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 →