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Model years to avoid

Ford Fusion

What it says about you

Opinion

Handsome, competent, and killed off because America stopped buying saloons. You did not stop.

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

15 model years on record, 28,147 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2010 (power steering). 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.

  • power steering 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 peak 48.2% of that year's complaints
  • brake 2008, 2009, 2015, 2017 peak 38.2% of that year's complaints
  • steering wheel 2011, 2012 peak 28.3% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2020 3 recalls 185 complaints
  2. 2019 3 recalls 707 complaints
  3. 2018 2 recalls 493 complaints
  4. 2017 4 recalls 2,182 complaints
  5. 2016 13 recalls 3,130 complaints
  6. 2015 13 recalls 2,048 complaints
  7. 2014 19 recalls 2,767 complaints
  8. 2013 19 recalls 1,949 complaints
  9. 2012 6 recalls 2,610 complaints
  10. 2011 9 recalls 2,783 complaints
  11. 2010 power steering 5,125 complaints
  12. 2009 7 recalls 1,021 complaints
  13. 2008 6 recalls 1,353 complaints
  14. 2007 5 recalls 1,064 complaints
  15. 2006 5 recalls 730 complaints

What does a Ford Fusion 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.