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2007 Lincoln Town CAR

Complaints about this year name apply far more often than the model's other years — 8% of them, about 21× the usual rate of 0.4%.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

Also unusual this year

• police report — 10% of complaints, 14× usual
• became — 10% of complaints, 14× usual
• control vehicle — 8% of complaints, 20× usual

What owners wrote

WHILE DRIVING AT 15 MPH AND ATTEMPTING TO ACCELERATE, THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL BECAME STUCK CAUSING THE VEHICLE TO LUNGE FORWARD AND CRASH INTO BUSHES. THE AIR BAGS FAILED TO DEPLOY. A POLICE REPORT WAS NOT FILED AND NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT…

WHILE DRIVING AT APPROXIMATELY 40 MPH, THE STEERING WHEEL BECAME VERY STIFF AND MADE IT DIFFICULT TO STEER THE VEHICLE. THE [VIN] WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE STEERING SHAFT WAS REPLACED, BUT THE FAILURE RECURRED. IT WAS UNKNOWN WHO PERFORMED THE REPAIRS O…

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 14V704000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
• 13V385000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
• 07V270000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.

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How this was worked out

Every year of the Lincoln Town CAR 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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