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Model years to avoid

Ford Crown Victoria

What it says about you

Opinion

Body-on-frame, rear-drive, and probably ex-fleet. It will run forever and everyone slows down when they see you.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

7 model years on record, 425 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2005 (headlights). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • pedal 2006, 2008 peak 20% of that year's complaints
  • paint 2006, 2007 peak 11.3% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2011 2 recalls 23 complaints
  2. 2010 2 recalls 12 complaints
  3. 2009 2 recalls 44 complaints
  4. 2008 3 recalls 50 complaints
  5. 2007 4 recalls 50 complaints
  6. 2006 3 recalls 53 complaints
  7. 2005 headlights 193 complaints

What does a Ford Crown Victoria say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.