What is the best year for the Nissan Versa?
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 Versa
which year?
Compare every Nissan Versa model year the EPA recorded, 2007 to 2025. 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 Versa 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 Versa 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 inspect2009
503 indexed complaint reports; suspension is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2009 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect2012486 indexed complaint reports; air bags is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2012 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect2008381 indexed complaint reports; air bags 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 Nissan Versa 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.
2024 Nissan Versa
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 95
- Combined EPA economy
- 30–35 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 2
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $1,750–2,050
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsengine 53power train 34vehicle speed control 20
Open the 2024 evidence dossier →2025 Nissan Versa
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 11
- Combined EPA economy
- 30–35 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 2
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $1,750–2,050
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsengine 3forward collision avoidance 3power train 3
Open the 2025 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2025 has 84 fewer indexed complaint allegations than 2024.
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 Versa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | engine 3forward collision avoidance 3power train 3 | 30–35 | 2 | $1,750–2,050 | Dossier → |
| 2024 | 95 | engine 53power train 34vehicle speed control 20 | 30–35 | 2 | $1,750–2,050 | Dossier → |
| 2023 | 37 | engine 23power train 15vehicle speed control 13 | 30–35 | 2 | $1,750–2,050 | Dossier → |
| 2022 | 20 | power train 8engine 6unknown or other 4 | 30–35 | 2 | $1,750–2,050 | Dossier → |
| 2021 | 31 | power train 9electrical system 7air bags 5 | 30–35 | 2 | $1,750–2,050 | Dossier → |
| 2020 | 64 | forward collision avoidance 22power train 16engine 14 | 30–35 | 2 | $1,750–2,050 | Dossier → |
| 2019 | 24 | power train 11electrical system 7air bags 3 | 30–34 | 2 | $1,800–2,050 | Dossier → |
| 2018 | 54 | electrical system 16engine 14air bags 13 | 29–34 | 3 | $1,800–2,100 | Dossier → |
| 2017 | 62 | air bags 15unknown or other 12electrical system 11 | 29–34 | 3 | $1,800–2,100 | Dossier → |
| 2016 | 80 | air bags 21power train 20unknown or other 16 | 29–34 | 3 | $1,800–2,100 | Dossier → |
| 2015 | 168 | power train 47engine 26unknown or other 26 | 29–34 | 3 | $1,800–2,100 | Dossier → |
| 2014 | 205 | power train 81engine 36unknown or other 32 | 30–35 | 3 | $1,750–2,050 | Dossier → |
| 2013 | 204 | power train 73unknown or other 33service brakes 32 | 30–35 | 3 | $1,750–2,050 | Dossier → |
| 2012 | 486 | air bags 169power train 163unknown or other 51 | 27–33 | 5 | $1,850–2,300 | Dossier → |
| 2011 | 269 | air bags 152suspension 46steering 21 | 27–30 | 5 | $2,050–2,300 | Dossier → |
| 2010 | 267 | air bags 130suspension 69electrical system 17 | 27–30 | 5 | $2,050–2,300 | Dossier → |
| 2009 | 503 | suspension 183air bags 179steering 28 | 27–30 | 6 | $2,050–2,300 | Dossier → |
| 2008 | 381 | air bags 171suspension 73electrical system 25 | 27–29 | 3 | $2,100–2,300 | Dossier → |
| 2007 | 354 | air bags 154suspension 54engine and engine cooling 31 | 27–28 | 3 | $2,200–2,300 | 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.