What is the best year for the Acura TLX?
No official dataset can support one universal best year. Use the table to compare complaint patterns and EPA figures, then open the shortlisted years for recall campaigns and exact specifications.
Model-year matrix
Acura TLX
which year?
Compare every Acura TLX model year the EPA recorded, 2015 to 2025. See complaint patterns, fuel economy and configurations side by side, then open any year for recall campaigns and the full dossier. Confirm against the official NHTSA recall search.
Evidence-led answer
Looking for the best Acura TLX year—or years to avoid?
The official records cannot honestly name a best, worst or most reliable year. Complaint totals have no sales, mileage or age denominator. They can show where more reports were filed and which components were named, giving you years to investigate more closely before checking the exact car and its VIN.
Which Acura TLX years should you avoid?
The records cannot justify a blanket avoid label. Years with more reports are surfaced below as research priorities, not predictions about every car from that year.
01 · More reports to inspect2015
340 indexed complaint reports; power train is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2015 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect2016110 indexed complaint reports; engine is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2016 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect201894 indexed complaint reports; engine is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2018 dossier →Do not read this as an avoid list. Older and higher-selling model years usually accumulate more reports. A low count can also mean a newer, rarer or poorly matched vehicle—not a safer one.
Complaint totals are counts of owner-submitted allegations, not confirmed defects, and they carry no denominator: they are not adjusted for how many cars were sold, how old they are, how far they are driven, or how much publicity a fault received. A high-volume or older year will usually show more reports than a rare or recent one. The site does not convert these into a reliability score, because the data needed to do that honestly is not in the public record.
Direct comparison
Compare two Acura TLX model years.
Choose any two years. The URL keeps the pair so you can return to the same comparison. Every figure below is an observed official record or EPA estimate—not a reliability score.
2024 Acura TLX
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 5
- Combined EPA economy
- 21–25 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 3
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $3,050–3,600
- Fuel labels
- Premium Gasoline
Most-reported component labelselectrical system 2power train 2engine 1
Open the 2024 evidence dossier →2025 Acura TLX
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 4
- Combined EPA economy
- 21–25 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 3
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $3,050–3,600
- Fuel labels
- Premium Gasoline
Most-reported component labelselectrical system 3steering 2engine 1
Open the 2025 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2025 has 1 fewer indexed complaint allegations than 2024.
This is not a rate or reliability finding. The counts have no sales, mileage, age or exposure denominator, and newer years have had less time to accumulate reports.Side by side
Acura TLX by year.
Complaint bars are scaled against this model’s own highest year, so they compare years with each other and with nothing else.
| Year | Complaints | Most-reported components | Combined MPG | EPA configs | Annual fuel cost | Dossier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | electrical system 3steering 2engine 1 | 21–25 | 3 | $3,050–3,600 | Dossier → |
| 2024 | 5 | electrical system 2power train 2engine 1 | 21–25 | 3 | $3,050–3,600 | Dossier → |
| 2023 | 10 | unknown or other 4electrical system 2service brakes 2 | 21–25 | 6 | $3,050–3,600 | Dossier → |
| 2022 | 24 | power train 9electrical system 4steering 4 | 21–25 | 6 | $3,050–3,600 | Dossier → |
| 2021 | 64 | power train 23forward collision avoidance 10electrical system 9 | 21–25 | 6 | $3,050–3,600 | Dossier → |
| 2020 | 62 | engine 19fuel system, gasoline 12forward collision avoidance 10 | 23–27 | 6 | $2,800–3,300 | Dossier → |
| 2019 | 91 | engine 31fuel/propulsion system 14engine and engine cooling 13 | 23–27 | 6 | $2,800–3,300 | Dossier → |
| 2018 | 94 | engine 31electrical system 19fuel/propulsion system 14 | 23–27 | 5 | $2,800–3,300 | Dossier → |
| 2017 | 70 | engine 23power train 18unknown or other 12 | 25–28 | 3 | $2,700–3,050 | Dossier → |
| 2016 | 110 | engine 27electrical system 24power train 16 | 25–28 | 3 | $2,700–3,050 | Dossier → |
| 2015 | 340 | power train 160engine 82electrical system 64 | 25–28 | 3 | $2,700–3,050 | Dossier → |
Evidence snapshot generated . “Not indexed” means NHTSA holds no complaint record matching this exact year, make and model — not that no fault occurred. Recall campaigns are not summarised here: NHTSA publishes no bulk recall dataset, and fetching them per year would take longer than the page should. Each year’s dossier shows its recalls in full, live from NHTSA.