What is the best year for the Mazda CX-9?
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
Mazda CX-9
which year?
Compare every Mazda CX-9 model year the EPA recorded, 2007 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 Mazda CX-9 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 Mazda CX-9 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 inspect2012
221 indexed complaint reports; service brakes is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2012 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect2010195 indexed complaint reports; service brakes is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2010 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect2008172 indexed complaint reports; suspension is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2008 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 Mazda CX-9 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 Mazda CX-9
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 9
- Combined EPA economy
- 23 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 1
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,650
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsforward collision avoidance 3electrical system 2exterior lighting 2
Open the 2022 evidence dossier →2023 Mazda CX-9
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 12
- Combined EPA economy
- 23 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 1
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,650
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsunknown or other 4forward collision avoidance 3chest clip, buckle, harness 2
Open the 2023 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2023 has 3 more 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
Mazda CX-9 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 | 12 | unknown or other 4forward collision avoidance 3chest clip, buckle, harness 2 | 23 | 1 | $2,650 | Dossier → |
| 2022 | 9 | forward collision avoidance 3electrical system 2exterior lighting 2 | 23 | 1 | $2,650 | Dossier → |
| 2021 | 37 | engine 20unknown or other 6service brakes 4 | 23–24 | 2 | $2,550–2,650 | Dossier → |
| 2020 | 19 | engine 5electrical system 4fuel/propulsion system 3 | 23–24 | 2 | $2,550–2,650 | Dossier → |
| 2019 | 52 | engine 22unknown or other 13electrical system 7 | 23–24 | 2 | $2,550–2,650 | Dossier → |
| 2018 | 126 | engine 74unknown or other 19electrical system 15 | 23–24 | 2 | $2,550–2,650 | Dossier → |
| 2017 | 61 | engine 43unknown or other 9fuel/propulsion system 6 | 23–24 | 2 | $2,550–2,650 | Dossier → |
| 2016 | 104 | engine 65electrical system 14service brakes 11 | 23–24 | 2 | $2,550–2,650 | Dossier → |
| 2015 | 35 | engine 17unknown or other 9power train 3 | 19 | 2 | $3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2014 | 54 | engine 19service brakes 9unknown or other 9 | 19 | 2 | $3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2013 | 68 | engine 17service brakes 16air bags 9 | 19 | 2 | $3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2012 | 221 | service brakes 139engine 25air bags 23 | 19 | 2 | $3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2011 | 170 | service brakes 97power train 26air bags 22 | 19 | 2 | $3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2010 | 195 | service brakes 88engine 23power train 23 | 17–18 | 2 | $3,400–3,600 | Dossier → |
| 2009 | 59 | service brakes 17air bags 16power train 6 | 17–18 | 2 | $3,400–3,600 | Dossier → |
| 2008 | 172 | suspension 56air bags 28power train 28 | 17–18 | 2 | $3,400–3,600 | Dossier → |
| 2007 | 86 | suspension 37air bags 18power train 12 | 17–18 | 2 | $3,400–3,600 | 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.