Mazda CX-9

Which Mazda CX-9 years should you avoid?

Going by 1,493 owner complaints filed with NHTSA, the Mazda CX-9 years to avoid are 2012, 2010, 2008 and 2011.

• 2012221 complaints, 2.9× a typical CX-9 year, most often about the brakes.
• 2010195 complaints, 2.5× a typical CX-9 year, most often about the brakes.
• 2008172 complaints, 2.2× a typical CX-9 year, most often about the suspension.
• 2011171 complaints, 2.2× a typical CX-9 year, most often about the brakes.

Better bets: among years old enough for a low count to mean something, the 2015, 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 →