What is the best year for the Toyota Yaris?
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 Yaris
which year?
Compare every Toyota Yaris model year the EPA recorded, 2007 to 2020. 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 Yaris 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 Yaris 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
258 indexed complaint reports; air bags is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2007 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect2008218 indexed complaint reports; air bags is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2008 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect200992 indexed complaint reports; air bags is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2009 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 Yaris 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.
2019 Toyota Yaris
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 26
- Combined EPA economy
- 32–35 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 3
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $1,750–1,900
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelselectrical system 8engine 8fuel/propulsion system 7
Open the 2019 evidence dossier →2020 Toyota Yaris
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 9
- Combined EPA economy
- 34–35 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 2
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $1,750–1,800
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsengine 3fuel system, gasoline 3unknown or other 3
Open the 2020 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2020 has 17 fewer indexed complaint allegations than 2019.
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 Yaris 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 9 | engine 3fuel system, gasoline 3unknown or other 3 | 34–35 | 2 | $1,750–1,800 | Dossier → |
| 2019 | 26 | electrical system 8engine 8fuel/propulsion system 7 | 32–35 | 3 | $1,750–1,900 | Dossier → |
| 2018 | 4 | air bags 2exterior lighting 1seat belts 1 | 32–35 | 4 | $1,750–1,900 | Dossier → |
| 2017 | 15 | air bags 4vehicle speed control 3electrical system 2 | 32–35 | 4 | $1,750–1,900 | Dossier → |
| 2016 | 5 | air bags 2service brakes 2structure 2 | 32–33 | 2 | $1,850–1,900 | Dossier → |
| 2015 | 15 | air bags 5service brakes 3unknown or other 3 | 32–33 | 2 | $1,850–1,900 | Dossier → |
| 2014 | 3 | electrical system 1structure 1tires 1 | 32–33 | 2 | $1,850–1,900 | Dossier → |
| 2013 | 9 | air bags 3service brakes 2structure 2 | 32–33 | 2 | $1,850–1,900 | Dossier → |
| 2012 | 35 | air bags 18electrical system 5structure 5 | 31–33 | 2 | $1,850–2,000 | Dossier → |
| 2011 | 25 | air bags 21structure 2suspension 2 | 31 | 2 | $2,000 | Dossier → |
| 2010 | 90 | air bags 46seats 8electrical system 7 | 31–32 | 2 | $1,900–2,000 | Dossier → |
| 2009 | 92 | air bags 47electrical system 10seats 10 | 31–32 | 2 | $1,900–2,000 | Dossier → |
| 2008 | 218 | air bags 108service brakes 22vehicle speed control 20 | 31–32 | 2 | $1,900–2,000 | Dossier → |
| 2007 | 258 | air bags 115suspension 21seat belts 20 | 31–32 | 2 | $1,900–2,000 | 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.