What is the best year for the Hyundai Tiburon?
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 Tiburon
which year?
Compare every Hyundai Tiburon model year the EPA recorded, 1997 to 2008. 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 Tiburon 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 Tiburon 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 inspect2003
328 indexed complaint reports; power train is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2003 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect200482 indexed complaint reports; power train is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2004 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect200664 indexed complaint reports; power train is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2006 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 Tiburon 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.
2007 Hyundai Tiburon
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 42
- Combined EPA economy
- 19–23 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 5
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,650–3,250
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelspower train 19air bags 13unknown or other 3
Open the 2007 evidence dossier →2008 Hyundai Tiburon
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 19
- Combined EPA economy
- 19–23 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 5
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,650–3,250
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsair bags 10seat belts 4electronic stability control (esc) 2
Open the 2008 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2008 has 23 fewer indexed complaint allegations than 2007.
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 Tiburon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 19 | air bags 10seat belts 4electronic stability control (esc) 2 | 19–23 | 5 | $2,650–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2007 | 42 | power train 19air bags 13unknown or other 3 | 19–23 | 5 | $2,650–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2006 | 64 | power train 43air bags 6tires 5 | 19–23 | 5 | $2,650–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2005 | 43 | power train 18air bags 7suspension 5 | 19–23 | 5 | $2,650–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2004 | 82 | power train 41air bags 22electrical system 8 | 19–23 | 5 | $2,650–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2003 | 328 | power train 172air bags 71electrical system 35 | 19–23 | 6 | $2,650–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2002 | 2 | air bags 1service brakes, hydraulic 1tires 1 | 19–23 | 4 | $2,650–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2001 | 36 | seat belts 9air bags 8power train 7 | 22–24 | 2 | $2,550–2,800 | Dossier → |
| 2000 | 58 | seat belts 17air bags 9exterior lighting 9 | 22–24 | 2 | $2,550–2,800 | Dossier → |
| 1999 | 26 | electrical system 10power train 6seat belts 6 | 22–23 | 2 | $2,650–2,800 | Dossier → |
| 1998 | 26 | power train 7engine and engine cooling 6unknown or other 6 | 22–23 | 2 | $2,650–2,800 | Dossier → |
| 1997 | 36 | power train 9air bags 8fuel system, gasoline 6 | 21–23 | 4 | $2,650–2,950 | 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.