Land Rover Range Rover vs Saturn VUE

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	Land Rover Range Rover	Saturn VUE
Complaints on file	1,317	3,280
Model years covered	1987–2025	2002–2010
Worst model year	2015	2003
Best model year	1994	2002
Crashes reported	81	193
Fires reported	50	84
Injuries reported	55	118
Deaths reported	4	1
Most complained-about part	Transmission & Drivetrain	Electrical System
Share of complaints involving harm	14.4%	12.1%

Land Rover Range Rover by year

3 2 6 14 6 9 13 46 50 27 28 38 34 7 25 133 61 43 80 22 36 5 17 20 23 37 67 102 95 84 44 27 31 16 4 33 16 13

87 88 89 90 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 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

Transmission & Drivetrain 240 18.2%

Engine & Cooling 160 12.1%

Steering 151 11.5%

Suspension 125 9.5%

Electrical System 123 9.3%

Brakes 76 5.8%

Airbags 71 5.4%

Fuel & Propulsion 69 5.2%

Saturn VUE by year

220 879 360 216 433 417 575 171 9

02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

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

What breaks

Electrical System 705 21.5%

Transmission & Drivetrain 661 20.2%

Airbags 310 9.5%

Engine & Cooling 298 9.1%

Steering 293 8.9%

Other & Unspecified 135 4.1%

Suspension 133 4.1%

Fuel & Propulsion 101 3.1%