2010 Ford Focus
This year drew 287 complaints against a median of 1,568 across the Ford Focus's other years, 0.2× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at.
Generation 2 of the Ford Focus, which began in 2008 and ran to 2011. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 287 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 1,568 |
| Involving a crash | 22 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 28 mpg |
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford Focus was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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