2007 Ford Taurus
This year drew an ordinary 149 complaints for a Ford Taurus — the model's median is 187. What they were about is the unusual part: 22.8% of them mention gas pedal, against 6.4% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 149 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 187 |
| Involving a crash | 8 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 20 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- gas pedal — 22.8% of this year's complaints, against 6.4% across the model's other years (3.6×). Owners wrote it as: gas pedal, kept, know what, faster.
- gas — 19.5% of this year's complaints, against 4.9% across the model's other years (4×).
- accelerate — 18.1% of this year's complaints, against 5.1% across the model's other years (3.5×). Owners wrote it as: accelerate, bring, stopping, rapidly.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
SUDDEN ACCELERATION ON CITY STREETS WITHOUT TOUCHING THE GAS PEDAL. ENGINE RUNNING AT 4RPM AT A COMPLETE STANDSTILL AND WHILE MOVING. EVEN WHEN THE BRAKE WAS ENGAGED THE CAR KEPT LURCHING FORWARD WANTING TO PROCEED THROUGH THE RED LIGHT.
WHILE STOPPED AT A STOP LIGHT (DEPRESSING THE BRAKE), THE VEHICLE LUNGED FORWARD AND RPM KEPT HIGH. RPM WENT TO NORMAL IN FEW SECONDS. IT OFTEN HAPPENS (1 OF 10 TIMES DEPRESSING BRAKE), YESTERDAY MORNIG THE CAR LOST POWER ON FREE WAY (VECHICLE SPEED WAS NOT AB…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16E026000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford Taurus 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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