Model years to avoid

Ford Five Hundred

What it says about you

Opinion

A large, safe, forgettable saloon that Ford renamed the Taurus after two years, hoping nobody would notice. You noticed.

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

3 model years on record, 1,073 complaints filed. That is too few to measure against. Every finding on this site compares a year with the same model's other years, and that needs about 40 complaints in a year and 4 years to compare it with. This nameplate has 3. So nothing is claimed either way — the recalls and ratings below are the record, and they are the whole record.

Every year

  1. 2007 2 recalls 199 complaints
  2. 2006 1 recall 364 complaints
  3. 2005 3 recalls 510 complaints

What does a Ford Five Hundred 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.