Is This A Lemon?

What NHTSA knows about your car.

One page per year, make, model. Recalls, consumer complaints, defect investigations, and NCAP crash-test ratings — pulled straight from the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The site covers 78,701 vehicles with at least one record on file. See methodology for the full scope.

Search by year, make, model

We look up the year, make, and model via NHTSA’s free vPIC API and forward you to the matching page.

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Top 24 by combined safety signal

Curated lists

Ranked leaderboards and recent activity