What is the best year for the Hyundai Palisade?
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 Palisade
which year?
Compare every Hyundai Palisade model year the EPA recorded, 2020 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 Hyundai Palisade 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 Palisade 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 inspect2020
524 indexed complaint reports; engine is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2020 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect2021423 indexed complaint reports; seat belts is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2021 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect2023389 indexed complaint reports; service brakes is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2023 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 Palisade 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.
2026 Hyundai Palisade
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 105
- Combined EPA economy
- 19–34 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 6
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $1,800–3,250
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsseats 45electrical system 27unknown or other 14
Open the 2026 evidence dossier →2027 Hyundai Palisade
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 0
- Combined EPA economy
- 19–34 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 6
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $1,800–3,250
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsNo component label indexed
Open the 2027 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2027 has 105 fewer indexed complaint allegations than 2026.
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 Palisade 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 | — | 19–34 | 6 | $1,800–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2026 | 105 | seats 45electrical system 27unknown or other 14 | 19–34 | 6 | $1,800–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2025 | 235 | service brakes 91seat belts 56unknown or other 41 | 21–22 | 2 | $2,800–2,950 | Dossier → |
| 2024 | 380 | service brakes 212forward collision avoidance 55seat belts 48 | 21–22 | 2 | $2,800–2,950 | Dossier → |
| 2023 | 389 | service brakes 79seat belts 70unknown or other 70 | 21–22 | 2 | $2,800–2,950 | Dossier → |
| 2022 | 302 | seat belts 70engine 46unknown or other 46 | 21–22 | 2 | $2,800–2,950 | Dossier → |
| 2021 | 423 | seat belts 107unknown or other 77electrical system 54 | 21–22 | 2 | $2,800–2,950 | Dossier → |
| 2020 | 524 | engine 125visibility/wiper 114unknown or other 83 | 21–22 | 2 | $2,800–2,950 | 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.