What is the best year for the Lexus NX?
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
Lexus NX
which year?
Compare every Lexus NX model year the EPA recorded, 2015 to 2026. 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 Lexus NX 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 Lexus NX 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 inspect2024
41 indexed complaint reports; electrical system is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2024 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect201930 indexed complaint reports; fuel/propulsion system is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2019 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect201526 indexed complaint reports; unknown or other is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2015 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 Lexus NX 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.
2025 Lexus NX
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 17
- Combined EPA economy
- 24–39 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 6
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $1,950–3,150
- Fuel labels
- Premium Gasoline · Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelselectrical system 3structure 3tires 3
Open the 2025 evidence dossier →2026 Lexus NX
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 2
- Combined EPA economy
- 24–40 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 4
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $1,900–3,150
- Fuel labels
- Premium Gasoline
Most-reported component labelselectrical system 1forward collision avoidance 1fuel/propulsion system 1
Open the 2026 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2026 has 15 fewer indexed complaint allegations than 2025.
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
Lexus NX 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | electrical system 1forward collision avoidance 1fuel/propulsion system 1 | 24–40 | 4 | $1,900–3,150 | Dossier → |
| 2025 | 17 | electrical system 3structure 3tires 3 | 24–39 | 6 | $1,950–3,150 | Dossier → |
| 2024 | 41 | electrical system 17unknown or other 10forward collision avoidance 5 | 24–39 | 6 | $1,950–3,150 | Dossier → |
| 2023 | 14 | unknown or other 3electrical system 2engine 2 | 25–39 | 6 | $1,950–3,050 | Dossier → |
| 2022 | 25 | unknown or other 8electrical system 6service brakes 4 | 25–39 | 6 | $1,950–3,050 | Dossier → |
| 2021 | 17 | engine 3visibility 3electrical system 2 | 24–31 | 4 | $2,000–3,150 | Dossier → |
| 2020 | 19 | engine 6fuel/propulsion system 6power train 2 | 24–31 | 4 | $2,000–3,150 | Dossier → |
| 2019 | 30 | fuel/propulsion system 11service brakes 5forward collision avoidance 4 | 24–31 | 4 | $2,000–3,150 | Dossier → |
| 2018 | 16 | fuel/propulsion system 7engine 4forward collision avoidance 2 | 24–31 | 4 | $2,000–3,150 | Dossier → |
| 2017 | 11 | electrical system 2forward collision avoidance 2service brakes 2 | 24–31 | 4 | $2,000–3,150 | Dossier → |
| 2016 | 16 | engine 5fuel/propulsion system 4power train 3 | 24–32 | 5 | $1,900–3,150 | Dossier → |
| 2015 | 26 | unknown or other 7air bags 4fuel/propulsion system 4 | 24–32 | 5 | $1,900–3,150 | 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.