What is the best year for the Volvo XC60?
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 XC60
which year?
Compare every Volvo XC60 model year the EPA recorded, 2010 to 2027. 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 XC60 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 XC60 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 inspect2022
70 indexed complaint reports; electrical system is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2022 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect201366 indexed complaint reports; visibility/wiper is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2013 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect201056 indexed complaint reports; unknown or other is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2010 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 XC60 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.
2026 Volvo XC60
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 0
- Combined EPA economy
- 26–28 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 2
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,700–2,900
- Fuel labels
- Premium Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsNo component label indexed
Open the 2026 evidence dossier →2027 Volvo XC60
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 0
- Combined EPA economy
- 26 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 1
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,900
- Fuel labels
- Premium Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsNo component label indexed
Open the 2027 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
Volvo XC60 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | 0 | — | 26 | 1 | $2,900 | Dossier → |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 26–28 | 2 | $2,700–2,900 | Dossier → |
| 2025 | 31 | electrical system 10back over prevention 9forward collision avoidance 6 | 26–28 | 2 | $2,700–2,900 | Dossier → |
| 2024 | 23 | electrical system 8back over prevention 7tires 4 | 25–28 | 2 | $2,700–3,050 | Dossier → |
| 2023 | 51 | electrical system 19unknown or other 11forward collision avoidance 8 | 23–28 | 4 | $2,700–3,300 | Dossier → |
| 2022 | 70 | electrical system 33forward collision avoidance 17back over prevention 12 | 24–28 | 5 | $2,700–3,150 | Dossier → |
| 2021 | 45 | electrical system 13unknown or other 10service brakes 9 | 23–27 | 4 | $2,800–3,300 | Dossier → |
| 2020 | 21 | electrical system 7unknown or other 5service brakes 4 | 23–27 | 4 | $2,800–3,300 | Dossier → |
| 2019 | 35 | electrical system 12service brakes 8steering 5 | 22–26 | 4 | $2,900–3,450 | Dossier → |
| 2018 | 36 | electrical system 11service brakes 7air bags 5 | 23–26 | 3 | $2,900–3,300 | Dossier → |
| 2017 | 16 | electrical system 5fuel/propulsion system 3air bags 2 | 22–26 | 3 | $2,350–3,450 | Dossier → |
| 2016 | 38 | engine 15unknown or other 8seat belts 6 | 20–26 | 5 | $2,350–3,450 | Dossier → |
| 2015 | 47 | engine 12unknown or other 12electrical system 11 | 20–27 | 5 | $2,300–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2014 | 16 | electrical system 5engine 4vehicle speed control 3 | 20–21 | 3 | $2,950–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2013 | 66 | visibility/wiper 27unknown or other 15electrical system 9 | 20–21 | 3 | $2,950–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2012 | 46 | visibility/wiper 19unknown or other 9electrical system 4 | 20–21 | 3 | $2,950–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2011 | 36 | seat belts 8electrical system 7unknown or other 6 | 19–21 | 3 | $2,950–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2010 | 56 | unknown or other 13electrical system 11structure 7 | 18–21 | 3 | $2,950–3,400 | 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.