Buick Park Avenue vs Nissan Versa

Both cars' complete complaint records, side by side.

Read the totals carefully. NHTSA publishes no sales figures, so the car that sold more collects more complaints regardless of quality. The rows worth weighing are the proportions — the share of complaints that involved harm, and which part dominates.

Measure	Buick Park Avenue	Nissan Versa
Complaints on file	1,880	4,513
Model years covered	1984–2005	2007–2025
Worst model year	1998	2012
Best model year	2005	2023
Crashes reported	95	414
Fires reported	174	61
Injuries reported	64	232
Deaths reported	4	15
Most complained-about part	Engine & Cooling	Airbags
Share of complaints involving harm	17.9%	16%

Buick Park Avenue by year

2 15 16 14 21 28 12 134 104 102 63 164 68 355 327 174 104 71 41 38 17 10

84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05

Complaints filed with NHTSA, by model year. Bar colour is the FaultScore grade: A B C D F ungraded

What breaks

Engine & Cooling 356 18.9%

Brakes 281 14.9%

Electrical System 198 10.5%

Seat Belts 142 7.6%

Fuel & Propulsion 117 6.2%

Steering 114 6.1%

Transmission & Drivetrain 102 5.4%

Body & Structure 97 5.2%

Nissan Versa by year

447 461 615 337 328 673 294 302 261 115 94 86 45 119 53 35 72 159 17

07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Complaints filed with NHTSA, by model year. Bar colour is the FaultScore grade: A B C D F ungraded

What breaks

Airbags 1,089 24.1%

Transmission & Drivetrain 562 12.5%

Suspension 483 10.7%

Engine & Cooling 431 9.6%

Other & Unspecified 313 6.9%

Electrical System 273 6.0%

Brakes 208 4.6%

Fuel & Propulsion 191 4.2%