What is the best year for the Dodge Intrepid?
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
Dodge Intrepid
which year?
Compare every Dodge Intrepid model year the EPA recorded, 1993 to 2004. 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 Dodge Intrepid 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 Dodge Intrepid 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 inspect2000
1,065 indexed complaint reports; engine and engine cooling is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2000 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect1999997 indexed complaint reports; engine and engine cooling is the most-reported component label.
Open the 1999 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect1994718 indexed complaint reports; power train is the most-reported component label.
Open the 1994 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 Dodge Intrepid 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.
2003 Dodge Intrepid
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 106
- Combined EPA economy
- 19–22 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 3
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,800–3,250
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsengine and engine cooling 62power train 21service brakes, hydraulic 12
Open the 2003 evidence dossier →2004 Dodge Intrepid
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 129
- Combined EPA economy
- 19–22 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 3
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,800–3,250
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsengine and engine cooling 81engine 12power train 10
Open the 2004 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2004 has 23 more indexed complaint allegations than 2003.
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
Dodge Intrepid 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 129 | engine and engine cooling 81engine 12power train 10 | 19–22 | 3 | $2,800–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2003 | 106 | engine and engine cooling 62power train 21service brakes, hydraulic 12 | 19–22 | 3 | $2,800–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2002 | 329 | engine and engine cooling 213power train 61service brakes, hydraulic 19 | 19–21 | 4 | $2,950–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2001 | 656 | engine and engine cooling 528steering 39power train 35 | 19–21 | 4 | $2,950–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2000 | 1,065 | engine and engine cooling 800steering 84power train 42 | 19–21 | 4 | $2,950–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 1999 | 997 | engine and engine cooling 716power train 98electrical system 61 | 19–22 | 2 | $2,800–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 1998 | 377 | engine and engine cooling 206service brakes, hydraulic 44power train 38 | 20–22 | 2 | $2,800–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 1997 | 344 | fuel system, gasoline 85steering 67engine and engine cooling 66 | 18–20 | 3 | $3,100–3,400 | Dossier → |
| 1996 | 505 | steering 178engine and engine cooling 100fuel system, gasoline 83 | 18–20 | 3 | $3,100–3,400 | Dossier → |
| 1995 | 589 | power train 160steering 114fuel system, gasoline 111 | 19–21 | 3 | $2,950–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 1994 | 718 | power train 173fuel system, gasoline 117engine and engine cooling 92 | 19–21 | 3 | $2,950–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 1993 | 408 | fuel system, gasoline 119engine and engine cooling 66power train 63 | 19–21 | 2 | $2,950–3,250 | 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.