Mercedes-Benz S420 by model year

23 owner complaints are on file with NHTSA for the Mercedes-Benz S420 across 6 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
1995	9
1996	4
1998	2
1999	8

All model years

Model year	Complaints	MPG
1999	8	16
1998	2	16
1997		16
1996	4	16
1995	9	16
1994		15