NHTSA vPIC
Literal make, model and model-year—never a fuzzy badge match.
US vehicle reliability evidence
Know the car.
Not the sales pitch.
Model-year facts, owner complaints, official recalls and EPA fuel economy—joined into one evidence file before you buy.
Try:
The evidence stack
Four sources.
Four different jobs.
A useful reliability file does not crush everything into a mysterious score. It shows what was reported, what became an official action, and what remains unknown.
ODI complaints
Allegations grouped by component, clearly separated from official findings.
NHTSA recalls
Campaign, consequence and remedy with a clear hand-off to VIN lookup.
EPA FuelEconomy
Configuration-level MPG, fuel and annual-cost estimates from 1984 onward.
Why there is no magic score
381 complaints does not mean “unreliable.”
Raw complaint volume is affected by sales volume, vehicle age, miles driven, publicity and reporting behavior. Until those denominators are present and validated, ModelYearFacts shows the signal—not a made-up verdict.
- Compare like-for-like model years
- Read component patterns, not anecdotes
- Separate reports from confirmed campaigns
VIN
The final safety step
Model-year research starts here. Your VIN finishes it.
A campaign may cover only certain production dates or configurations. Always use NHTSA’s official VIN tool before relying on a recall result for one specific car.
Open the official VIN lookup ↗Cross-account data estate
All holdings considered.
Only relevant facts published.
The shared Atlas architecture keeps raw R2 holdings private, builds compact rights-cleared projections, and serves the same governed identity layer used by TruckBench, MotoBench and TyreBench.
Shared model-failure research layer; not projected onto US cars without a validated identity bridge.
vPIC, ODI complaints, recalls and FuelEconomy make up the launch contract.
Internal quality-gate ceiling from the estate screen—not an indexed-page promise.
Primary, partner and EU inventories checked before deciding what belongs here.
Primary + partner R2→rights ledger→entity + evidence graph→publication gate→ModelYearFacts
Commercial boundary
A private catalogue can enrich a car.
It cannot grade one.
Automotive products and future approved offers can flow through the shared offer router only after exact identifier matching and site/merchant permission. Paid links stay separate from complaint, recall and efficiency evidence.
Current status: offer layer held for rights and exact-fitment review.
Source ledger
Primary records, linked.
One car in mind?