What is the best year for the Audi S6?
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
Audi S6
which year?
Compare every Audi S6 model year the EPA recorded, 1995 to 2027. 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 Audi S6 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 Audi S6 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 inspect2013
42 indexed complaint reports; engine is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2013 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect201420 indexed complaint reports; engine is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2014 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect199520 indexed complaint reports; fuel system, gasoline is the most-reported component label.
Open the 1995 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 Audi S6 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.
2025 Audi S6
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 2
- Combined EPA economy
- 22 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 1
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $3,450
- Fuel labels
- Premium Gasoline
Most-reported component labelselectrical system 1forward collision avoidance 1lane departure 1
Open the 2025 evidence dossier →2027 Audi S6
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 0
- Combined EPA economy
- 100–103 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 2
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $750
- Fuel labels
- Electricity
Most-reported component labelsNo component label indexed
Open the 2027 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2027 has 2 fewer indexed complaint allegations than 2025.
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
Audi S6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | 0 | — | 100–103 | 2 | $750 | Dossier → |
| 2025 | 2 | electrical system 1forward collision avoidance 1lane departure 1 | 22 | 1 | $3,450 | Dossier → |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 22 | 1 | $3,450 | Dossier → |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 22 | 1 | $3,450 | Dossier → |
| 2022 | 4 | electrical system 3engine 2structure 1 | 22 | 1 | $3,450 | Dossier → |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 22 | 1 | $3,450 | Dossier → |
| 2020 | 2 | electrical system 2engine 1power train 1 | 22 | 1 | $3,450 | Dossier → |
| 2018 | 4 | steering 2electrical system 1service brakes 1 | 18 | 1 | $4,200 | Dossier → |
| 2017 | 5 | engine 4fuel/propulsion system 1unknown or other 1 | 21 | 1 | $3,600 | Dossier → |
| 2016 | 19 | engine 13unknown or other 4power train 3 | 21 | 1 | $3,600 | Dossier → |
| 2015 | 5 | engine 3electrical system 1fuel/propulsion system 1 | 20 | 1 | $3,800 | Dossier → |
| 2014 | 20 | engine 14fuel/propulsion system 3suspension 3 | 20 | 1 | $3,800 | Dossier → |
| 2013 | 42 | engine 33power train 8electrical system 3 | 20 | 1 | $3,800 | Dossier → |
| 2011 | 0 | — | 16 | 1 | $4,750 | Dossier → |
| 2010 | 1 | air bags 1 | 16 | 1 | $4,750 | Dossier → |
| 2009 | 0 | — | 16 | 1 | $4,750 | Dossier → |
| 2008 | 2 | air bags 1seat belts 1 | 16 | 1 | $4,750 | Dossier → |
| 2007 | 1 | air bags 1 | 16 | 1 | $4,750 | Dossier → |
| 2003 | 2 | fuel system, other 1fuel/propulsion system 1 | 15 | 1 | $5,050 | Dossier → |
| 2002 | 7 | fuel system, gasoline 3power train 2vehicle speed control 2 | 15 | 1 | $5,050 | Dossier → |
| 1995 | 20 | fuel system, gasoline 18electrical system 3structure 1 | 18 | 2 | $4,200 | 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.