What is the best year for the Hyundai Azera?
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
Hyundai Azera
which year?
Compare every Hyundai Azera model year the EPA recorded, 2006 to 2017. 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 Hyundai Azera 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 Hyundai Azera 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 inspect2006
188 indexed complaint reports; air bags is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2006 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect2007131 indexed complaint reports; air bags is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2007 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect2013112 indexed complaint reports; steering is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2013 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 Hyundai Azera 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.
2016 Hyundai Azera
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 15
- Combined EPA economy
- 22–23 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 2
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,650–2,800
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsair bags 3steering 3electrical system 2
Open the 2016 evidence dossier →2017 Hyundai Azera
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 12
- Combined EPA economy
- 22–23 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 2
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,650–2,800
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelssteering 5electrical system 2engine and engine cooling 2
Open the 2017 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2017 has 3 fewer indexed complaint allegations than 2016.
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
Hyundai Azera 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 12 | steering 5electrical system 2engine and engine cooling 2 | 22–23 | 2 | $2,650–2,800 | Dossier → |
| 2016 | 15 | air bags 3steering 3electrical system 2 | 22–23 | 2 | $2,650–2,800 | Dossier → |
| 2015 | 9 | vehicle speed control 4power train 3steering 3 | 22–23 | 2 | $2,650–2,800 | Dossier → |
| 2014 | 48 | service brakes, hydraulic 18steering 9electrical system 7 | 23 | 1 | $2,650 | Dossier → |
| 2013 | 112 | steering 33air bags 18engine 17 | 23 | 1 | $2,650 | Dossier → |
| 2012 | 74 | steering 38engine 10service brakes, hydraulic 8 | 23 | 1 | $2,650 | Dossier → |
| 2011 | 20 | power train 10engine 6electrical system 5 | 22 | 2 | $2,800 | Dossier → |
| 2010 | 8 | air bags 2engine 2service brakes 2 | 20–21 | 2 | $2,950–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2009 | 26 | electrical system 7engine 6vehicle speed control 5 | 20–21 | 2 | $2,950–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2008 | 69 | seats 24air bags 16electrical system 14 | 20–21 | 2 | $2,950–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2007 | 131 | air bags 44seats 30electrical system 19 | 20 | 1 | $3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2006 | 188 | air bags 59exterior lighting 47electrical system 33 | 20 | 1 | $3,100 | 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.