What is the best year for the Kia Stinger?
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
Kia Stinger
which year?
Compare every Kia Stinger model year the EPA recorded, 2018 to 2023. 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 Kia Stinger 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 Kia Stinger 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 inspect2018
67 indexed complaint reports; engine is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2018 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect201943 indexed complaint reports; engine is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2019 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect202217 indexed complaint reports; electrical system is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2022 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 Kia Stinger 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.
2022 Kia Stinger
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 17
- Combined EPA economy
- 20–25 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 4
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $3,050–3,800
- Fuel labels
- Premium Gasoline
Most-reported component labelselectrical system 6unknown or other 6engine 4
Open the 2022 evidence dossier →2023 Kia Stinger
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 5
- Combined EPA economy
- 20–25 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 4
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $3,050–3,800
- Fuel labels
- Premium Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsstructure 3air bags 1electrical system 1
Open the 2023 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2023 has 12 fewer indexed complaint allegations than 2022.
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
Kia Stinger 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | structure 3air bags 1electrical system 1 | 20–25 | 4 | $3,050–3,800 | Dossier → |
| 2022 | 17 | electrical system 6unknown or other 6engine 4 | 20–25 | 4 | $3,050–3,800 | Dossier → |
| 2021 | 17 | unknown or other 5engine 4service brakes 4 | 20–25 | 4 | $3,050–3,800 | Dossier → |
| 2020 | 16 | electrical system 6fuel/propulsion system 6engine 5 | 20–25 | 4 | $3,050–3,800 | Dossier → |
| 2019 | 43 | engine 12electrical system 9service brakes 6 | 20–25 | 4 | $3,050–3,800 | Dossier → |
| 2018 | 67 | engine 22electrical system 11fuel/propulsion system 10 | 20–25 | 4 | $3,050–3,800 | 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.