BMW Z3 Roadster by model year

55 owner complaints are on file with NHTSA for the BMW Z3 Roadster across 7 model years. Choose a year for problems, recalls, fuel economy and crash ratings in one place.

Complaints by model year

Older model years have had longer to collect complaints, so a taller bar on an older year is not necessarily a worse year. The best and worst years page corrects for this.

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Model year	Complaints
1998	20
2000	25
2001	10

All model years

Model year	Complaints	Most reported	MPG
2002			19 to 21
2001	10		19 to 21
2000	25	Body & structure (32%)	19 to 20
1999			19 to 20
1998	20		18 to 24
1997			19 to 24
1996			23