Toyota Camry

Which Toyota Camry years should you avoid?

Going by 17,920 owner complaints filed with NHTSA, the Toyota Camry years to avoid are 2007, 2009, 2002, 2008 and 2005.

• 20072,888 complaints, 6.9× a typical Camry year, most often about the engine.
• 20091,294 complaints, 3.1× a typical Camry year, most often about the throttle and acceleration.
• 2002953 complaints, 2.3× a typical Camry year, most often about the throttle and acceleration.
• 2008933 complaints, 2.2× a typical Camry year, most often about the visibility.
• 20052.2× the usual share of fires, crashes and deaths for a car of its age (10 fires, 223 crashes, 6 deaths).

1 more year cleared the same bar; it is marked in the table below.

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