One Bronco Sport model year has completed the 60-month window, so there is no
comparison to make here. The 2021 car is measured against itself, which is why
it sits at exactly 1.00 times the model’s median and why nothing is named as a
best year. Treat the grade as a placeholder until the 2022 and later cars
mature.
What the single year does show is worth reading on its own terms. It records
802 complaints — a high figure for a first model year — with electrical leading
at 178 reports, engine at 121 and braking at 119. The accounts under electrical
describe the instrument cluster going dead and the vehicle failing to start,
sometimes repeatedly and at very low mileage.
It also carries 21 fire allegations and eighteen weighted recall campaigns,
both high for a launch year.
Later model years appear underneath but are not scored, and their counts are
deliberately not compared here. Each has had less time on the road than the one
before it, so a newer year will always show fewer complaints regardless of how
good the car is — the exposure effect this site exists to correct for. Those
figures also grow with every monthly refresh. They will mean something once
each year completes its own 60-month window, and not before.
Reviewed Claude, 11 August 2026, against the model's own record and NHTSA campaign filings
