2022 Kia Stinger

The 2022 Kia Stinger occupies a notably favorable position in its generation's federal record, with 15 complaints and just 1 recall — figures that sit at or near the low end of a clear downward trend that began with 64 complaints and 4 recalls in the launch year of 2018. Recall activity actually peaked mid-cycle (6 in 2020, 5 in 2021) before dropping sharply to a single bulletin for 2022 and 2023, suggesting that most of the earlier campaign-driven issues had been resolved by the time this model year rolled off the line. TSB volume mirrors that same maturation arc, falling from 100 in 2018 to 33 in 2022, while complaint counts declined more or less monotonically to just 5 by 2023 — the 2022 figure of 15 therefore reflects a vehicle well past its early-production friction points. The 2022 complaint mix is largely unclustered (3 unknown/other, 2 service brakes, and one each in electrical and visibility), with zero crash or fire complaints flagged, indicating no systemic safety-critical pattern in the data. Taken together, 2022 represents a sweet spot in the Stinger's lifecycle: the model had absorbed the bulk of its recalls and engineering corrections, consumer grievances were trending toward the floor, and no investigations were open. For a used-buyer, this is a strong year to target — the data supports it as a well-sorted vehicle rather than one still carrying early-design risk.