What is the best year for the Volvo S60?
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
Volvo S60
which year?
Compare every Volvo S60 model year the EPA recorded, 2001 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 Volvo S60 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 Volvo S60 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 inspect2001
223 indexed complaint reports; fuel system, gasoline is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2001 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect2004198 indexed complaint reports; engine and engine cooling is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2004 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect2002186 indexed complaint reports; fuel system, gasoline 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 Volvo S60 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 Volvo S60
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 18
- Combined EPA economy
- 28–31 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 3
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,450–2,700
- Fuel labels
- Premium Gasoline
Most-reported component labelselectrical system 5unknown or other 5forward collision avoidance 4
Open the 2024 evidence dossier →2025 Volvo S60
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 0
- Combined EPA economy
- 28–31 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 3
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,450–2,700
- Fuel labels
- Premium Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsNo component label indexed
Open the 2025 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2025 has 18 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
Volvo S60 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 | 0 | — | 28–31 | 3 | $2,450–2,700 | Dossier → |
| 2024 | 18 | electrical system 5unknown or other 5forward collision avoidance 4 | 28–31 | 3 | $2,450–2,700 | Dossier → |
| 2023 | 3 | back over prevention 2unknown or other 1 | 28–31 | 3 | $2,450–2,700 | Dossier → |
| 2022 | 15 | electrical system 4unknown or other 3wheels 3 | 28–31 | 4 | $2,450–2,700 | Dossier → |
| 2021 | 8 | electrical system 4unknown or other 3visibility/wiper 3 | 25–30 | 4 | $2,550–3,050 | Dossier → |
| 2020 | 10 | service brakes 5forward collision avoidance 4steering 3 | 25–30 | 3 | $2,550–3,050 | Dossier → |
| 2019 | 24 | electrical system 5tires 4unknown or other 3 | 25–31 | 3 | $2,450–3,050 | Dossier → |
| 2018 | 4 | electrical system 1engine 1service brakes 1 | 22–29 | 7 | $2,100–3,450 | Dossier → |
| 2017 | 15 | unknown or other 6structure 3latches/locks/linkages 2 | 23–29 | 7 | $2,100–3,300 | Dossier → |
| 2016 | 25 | engine 8electrical system 5unknown or other 4 | 21–30 | 9 | $2,050–3,050 | Dossier → |
| 2015 | 57 | engine 22unknown or other 11electrical system 9 | 21–29 | 5 | $2,100–2,950 | Dossier → |
| 2014 | 25 | engine 12electrical system 3vehicle speed control 3 | 21–24 | 3 | $2,550–2,950 | Dossier → |
| 2013 | 86 | engine 36unknown or other 13air bags 7 | 21–24 | 3 | $2,550–2,950 | Dossier → |
| 2012 | 121 | engine 61electrical system 17unknown or other 15 | 21–23 | 2 | $2,650–2,950 | Dossier → |
| 2011 | 5 | engine and engine cooling 1steering 1structure 1 | 21 | 1 | $2,950 | Dossier → |
| 2009 | 7 | air bags 2electrical system 1fuel system, gasoline 1 | 21–23 | 5 | $2,650–2,950 | Dossier → |
| 2008 | 10 | vehicle speed control 4air bags 2engine 2 | 21–22 | 6 | $3,450–3,600 | Dossier → |
| 2007 | 21 | electrical system 7air bags 5power train 3 | 18–22 | 8 | $3,450–4,200 | Dossier → |
| 2006 | 31 | air bags 6engine 6fuel/propulsion system 4 | 18–22 | 10 | $3,450–4,200 | Dossier → |
| 2005 | 44 | engine and engine cooling 7electrical system 6tires 6 | 18–22 | 8 | $3,450–4,200 | Dossier → |
| 2004 | 198 | engine and engine cooling 63fuel system, gasoline 30engine 22 | 19–22 | 8 | $3,450–4,000 | Dossier → |
| 2003 | 120 | electrical system 55vehicle speed control 18engine and engine cooling 16 | 19–23 | 6 | $3,300–4,000 | Dossier → |
| 2002 | 186 | fuel system, gasoline 44electrical system 36fuel/propulsion system 25 | 20–21 | 6 | $3,600–3,800 | Dossier → |
| 2001 | 223 | fuel system, gasoline 71vehicle speed control 42electrical system 31 | 20–21 | 6 | $3,600–3,800 | 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.