By model year

Chevrolet Impala by model year: recalls, complaints, ratings

For the Chevrolet Impala, matched NHTSA complaint counts in this table run from 15 (2020) to 1,073 (2004). The complaint file is dated Oct 23, 2026. These are raw counts, not rates. A higher count can mean more vehicles were sold, and newer model years have had less time for complaints to be reported.

ABOUT THIS DATA

The table lists raw counts from NHTSA's files. A larger complaint count can mean more vehicles were sold, and newer model years have had less time for complaints to be reported. The counts are not divided by sales. This page does not rank one model year above another.

One row per model year. Complaint and recall figures are matched raw counts.
2000 7 818 49 73 2 Pre-2011 21
2001 7 742 33 67 2 Pre-2011 20–22
2002 4 795 38 32 2 Pre-2011 20–22
2003 5 695 32 32 1 Pre-2011 20–22
2004 4 1,073 44 21 0 Pre-2011 20–22
2005 1 609 39 13 0 Pre-2011 20–22
2006 1 524 58 22 1 Pre-2011 19–22
2007 2 627 52 10 0 Pre-2011 19–22
2008 2 810 51 10 1 Pre-2011 19–22
2009 5 824 43 9 0 Pre-2011 19–23
2010 4 442 18 3 0 Pre-2011 21–22
2011 2 505 22 5 0 — 21–23
2012 3 258 20 5 0 4 22
2013 1 272 16 0 0 4 22
2014 12 637 19 8 2 4–5 21–28
2015 3 300 10 11 0 4–5 20–25
2016 0 111 8 4 0 4–5 20–25
2017 0 117 4 0 0 5 22–25
2018 1 59 6 0 0 5 22–25
2019 1 28 4 1 0 5 22–25
2020 0 15 3 0 0 5 22

Star columns say "Pre-2011" for older model years because those ratings use a different NHTSA method. Overall stars for 2011 and newer are the matched Safety Ratings variants. A dash means no overall star was matched.