What is the best year for the Toyota Camry?
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
Toyota Camry
which year?
Compare every Toyota Camry model year the EPA recorded, 1984 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 Toyota Camry 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 Toyota Camry 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 inspect2007
2,886 indexed complaint reports; vehicle speed control is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2007 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect20091,292 indexed complaint reports; vehicle speed control is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2009 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect2002953 indexed complaint reports; vehicle speed control is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2002 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 Toyota Camry 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 Toyota Camry
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 0
- Combined EPA economy
- 44–51 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 5
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $1,200–1,400
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsNo component label indexed
Open the 2025 evidence dossier →2026 Toyota Camry
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 0
- Combined EPA economy
- 43–51 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 5
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $1,200–1,450
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsNo component label indexed
Open the 2026 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
The two years have the same number of indexed NHTSA complaint allegations.
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
Toyota Camry 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 | 0 | — | 43–51 | 5 | $1,200–1,450 | Dossier → |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 44–51 | 5 | $1,200–1,400 | Dossier → |
| 2024 | 47 | structure 11unknown or other 8air bags 6 | 25–52 | 9 | $1,200–2,450 | Dossier → |
| 2023 | 62 | unknown or other 17electrical system 9forward collision avoidance 9 | 25–52 | 10 | $1,200–2,450 | Dossier → |
| 2022 | 58 | air bags 11electrical system 8forward collision avoidance 8 | 25–52 | 9 | $1,200–2,450 | Dossier → |
| 2021 | 155 | air bags 78unknown or other 21service brakes 13 | 25–52 | 9 | $1,200–2,450 | Dossier → |
| 2020 | 268 | electrical system 65engine 58air bags 49 | 25–52 | 10 | $1,200–2,450 | Dossier → |
| 2019 | 390 | power train 112engine 79fuel/propulsion system 64 | 26–52 | 7 | $1,200–2,350 | Dossier → |
| 2018 | 732 | power train 190engine 130service brakes 128 | 26–52 | 7 | $1,200–2,350 | Dossier → |
| 2017 | 148 | unknown or other 31air bags 24electrical system 23 | 24–40 | 4 | $1,550–2,550 | Dossier → |
| 2016 | 180 | unknown or other 34air bags 32steering 25 | 25–40 | 4 | $1,550–2,450 | Dossier → |
| 2015 | 268 | steering 105service brakes 37power train 36 | 25–40 | 4 | $1,550–2,450 | Dossier → |
| 2014 | 455 | power train 128unknown or other 71vehicle speed control 64 | 25–40 | 4 | $1,550–2,450 | Dossier → |
| 2013 | 274 | power train 67unknown or other 46air bags 37 | 25–40 | 4 | $1,550–2,450 | Dossier → |
| 2012 | 589 | power train 143unknown or other 81air bags 75 | 24–40 | 4 | $1,550–2,550 | Dossier → |
| 2011 | 598 | unknown or other 116visibility/wiper 92air bags 72 | 23–33 | 4 | $1,850–2,650 | Dossier → |
| 2010 | 602 | vehicle speed control 168unknown or other 82structure 64 | 23–34 | 4 | $1,800–2,650 | Dossier → |
| 2009 | 1,292 | vehicle speed control 268structure 224engine 208 | 23–34 | 4 | $1,800–2,650 | Dossier → |
| 2008 | 932 | visibility 186structure 141engine 131 | 21–34 | 8 | $1,800–2,950 | Dossier → |
| 2007 | 2,886 | vehicle speed control 512structure 404engine 377 | 21–34 | 8 | $1,800–2,950 | Dossier → |
| 2006 | 317 | vehicle speed control 108air bags 62service brakes, hydraulic 30 | 21–25 | 8 | $2,450–2,950 | Dossier → |
| 2005 | 721 | vehicle speed control 274power train 87steering 71 | 21–25 | 8 | $2,450–2,950 | Dossier → |
| 2004 | 638 | vehicle speed control 241steering 81air bags 79 | 21–24 | 8 | $2,550–2,950 | Dossier → |
| 2003 | 780 | vehicle speed control 261engine and engine cooling 115service brakes, hydraulic 96 | 19–24 | 9 | $2,550–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2002 | 953 | vehicle speed control 282service brakes, hydraulic 151engine and engine cooling 110 | 19–24 | 9 | $2,550–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2001 | 272 | engine and engine cooling 48vehicle speed control 46air bags 39 | 19–24 | 11 | $2,000–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2000 | 454 | vehicle speed control 109service brakes, hydraulic 64air bags 61 | 19–24 | 11 | $2,000–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 1999 | 501 | engine and engine cooling 121service brakes, hydraulic 91air bags 76 | 20–24 | 9 | $1,950–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 1998 | 600 | service brakes, hydraulic 131engine and engine cooling 100vehicle speed control 86 | 20–24 | 4 | $2,550–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 1997 | 555 | service brakes, hydraulic 117engine and engine cooling 102suspension 71 | 19–23 | 4 | $2,650–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 1996 | 417 | engine and engine cooling 86service brakes, hydraulic 57vehicle speed control 51 | 21–23 | 5 | $2,650–2,950 | Dossier → |
| 1995 | 303 | service brakes, hydraulic 59air bags 48engine and engine cooling 37 | 21–23 | 5 | $2,650–2,950 | Dossier → |
| 1994 | 287 | air bags 53engine and engine cooling 43service brakes, hydraulic 43 | 18–23 | 5 | $2,650–3,400 | Dossier → |
| 1993 | 260 | air bags 46engine and engine cooling 46power train 33 | 18–22 | 6 | $2,800–3,400 | Dossier → |
| 1992 | 565 | structure 308latches/locks/linkages 89engine and engine cooling 39 | 19–22 | 7 | $2,800–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 1991 | 149 | seat belts 28electrical system 25equipment 23 | 19–26 | 8 | $2,350–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 1990 | 134 | seat belts 27latches/locks/linkages 22structure 22 | 19–26 | 9 | $2,350–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 1989 | 113 | seat belts 21latches/locks/linkages 16vehicle speed control 16 | 19–25 | 10 | $2,450–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 1988 | 64 | electrical system 13engine and engine cooling 11power train 10 | 19–25 | 9 | $2,450–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 1987 | 58 | seat belts 23fuel system, gasoline 12electrical system 7 | 24–26 | 4 | $2,350–2,550 | Dossier → |
| 1986 | 32 | seat belts 12tires 5engine and engine cooling 4 | 25–29 | 3 | $2,300–2,750 | Dossier → |
| 1985 | 13 | service brakes, hydraulic 4electrical system 3tires 3 | 26–27 | 3 | $2,300–2,950 | Dossier → |
| 1984 | 8 | seat belts 4service brakes, hydraulic 2engine and engine cooling 1 | 26–32 | 5 | $2,300–2,500 | 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.