What is the best year for the Nissan Rogue?
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 Rogue
which year?
Compare every Nissan Rogue model year the EPA recorded, 2008 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 Nissan Rogue 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 Rogue 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 inspect2023
687 indexed complaint reports; engine is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2023 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect2018665 indexed complaint reports; service brakes is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2018 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect2013608 indexed complaint reports; power train is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2013 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 Rogue 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 Nissan Rogue
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 173
- Combined EPA economy
- 29–33 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 5
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $1,850–2,100
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsunknown or other 72visibility/wiper 47visibility 29
Open the 2025 evidence dossier →2026 Nissan Rogue
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 33
- Combined EPA economy
- 29–32 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 3
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $1,900–2,100
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsengine 7visibility/wiper 7power train 6
Open the 2026 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2026 has 140 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
Nissan Rogue 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 | 33 | engine 7visibility/wiper 7power train 6 | 29–32 | 3 | $1,900–2,100 | Dossier → |
| 2025 | 173 | unknown or other 72visibility/wiper 47visibility 29 | 29–33 | 5 | $1,850–2,100 | Dossier → |
| 2024 | 188 | unknown or other 61engine 55power train 43 | 31–33 | 4 | $1,850–2,000 | Dossier → |
| 2023 | 687 | engine 265unknown or other 145engine and engine cooling 119 | 31–33 | 8 | $1,850–2,000 | Dossier → |
| 2022 | 227 | engine 125fuel/propulsion system 43engine and engine cooling 37 | 27–33 | 6 | $1,850–2,300 | Dossier → |
| 2021 | 280 | unknown or other 78electrical system 60engine 49 | 27–33 | 10 | $1,850–2,300 | Dossier → |
| 2020 | 147 | forward collision avoidance 68unknown or other 35service brakes 31 | 27–29 | 4 | $2,100–2,300 | Dossier → |
| 2019 | 333 | forward collision avoidance 122service brakes 122electrical system 60 | 27–34 | 6 | $1,800–2,300 | Dossier → |
| 2018 | 665 | service brakes 261forward collision avoidance 203unknown or other 138 | 27–34 | 6 | $1,800–2,300 | Dossier → |
| 2017 | 595 | unknown or other 139power train 122service brakes 110 | 27–34 | 6 | $1,800–2,300 | Dossier → |
| 2016 | 537 | power train 176electrical system 124unknown or other 85 | 27–28 | 2 | $2,200–2,300 | Dossier → |
| 2015 | 550 | power train 141unknown or other 124air bags 98 | 24–28 | 4 | $2,200–2,550 | Dossier → |
| 2014 | 436 | power train 116air bags 74electrical system 68 | 24–28 | 4 | $2,200–2,550 | Dossier → |
| 2013 | 608 | power train 314engine 104vehicle speed control 90 | 24–25 | 2 | $2,450–2,550 | Dossier → |
| 2012 | 317 | power train 136unknown or other 44engine 43 | 23–25 | 2 | $2,450–2,650 | Dossier → |
| 2011 | 362 | power train 190vehicle speed control 62electrical system 53 | 24 | 2 | $2,550 | Dossier → |
| 2010 | 282 | power train 126vehicle speed control 66engine 46 | 23–24 | 2 | $2,550–2,650 | Dossier → |
| 2009 | 320 | air bags 101power train 101engine 30 | 23–24 | 2 | $2,550–2,650 | Dossier → |
| 2008 | 429 | power train 161air bags 131vehicle speed control 51 | 23–24 | 2 | $2,550–2,650 | 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.