What is the best year for the Nissan Kicks?
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
Nissan Kicks
which year?
Compare every Nissan Kicks model year the EPA recorded, 2018 to 2024. 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 Nissan Kicks 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 Nissan Kicks 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 inspect2019
134 indexed complaint reports; forward collision avoidance is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2019 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect202093 indexed complaint reports; forward collision avoidance is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2020 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect201884 indexed complaint reports; unknown or other is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2018 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 Nissan Kicks 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.
2023 Nissan Kicks
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 14
- Combined EPA economy
- 33 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 1
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $1,850
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsforward collision avoidance 8electrical system 3lane departure 3
Open the 2023 evidence dossier →2024 Nissan Kicks
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 32
- Combined EPA economy
- 33 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 1
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $1,850
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsunknown or other 8visibility 8visibility/wiper 7
Open the 2024 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2024 has 18 more indexed complaint allegations than 2023.
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
Nissan Kicks 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 32 | unknown or other 8visibility 8visibility/wiper 7 | 33 | 1 | $1,850 | Dossier → |
| 2023 | 14 | forward collision avoidance 8electrical system 3lane departure 3 | 33 | 1 | $1,850 | Dossier → |
| 2022 | 22 | forward collision avoidance 7steering 5engine 4 | 33 | 1 | $1,850 | Dossier → |
| 2021 | 74 | structure 24forward collision avoidance 18unknown or other 15 | 33 | 1 | $1,850 | Dossier → |
| 2020 | 93 | forward collision avoidance 43electrical system 27engine 20 | 33 | 1 | $1,850 | Dossier → |
| 2019 | 134 | forward collision avoidance 58electrical system 39engine 35 | 33 | 1 | $1,850 | Dossier → |
| 2018 | 84 | unknown or other 26forward collision avoidance 24electrical system 23 | 33 | 1 | $1,850 | 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.