2006 Ford Taurus
This year drew an ordinary 318 complaints for a Ford Taurus — the model's median is 175. What they were about is the unusual part: 32.1% of them mention stop, against 8.7% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 318 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 175 |
| Involving a crash | 19 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| EPA combined | 20 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- stop — 32.1% of this year's complaints, against 8.7% across the model's other years (3.7×).
- pedal — 29.2% of this year's complaints, against 6.8% across the model's other years (4.3×).
- accelerator — 26.7% of this year's complaints, against 5.3% across the model's other years (5.1×). Owners wrote it as: accelerator, accelerator pedal, pedal vehicle, engine revved.
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
THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL BECAME STUCK WHILE IT WAS DEPRESSED CAUSING THE VEHICLE TO SUDDENLY ACCELERATE AND THE CRUISE CONTROL TO FAIL. THE FAILURE RECURRED SEVERAL TIMES. THE [VIN] WAS MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO THE DEALER TO HAVE A…
WHILE DRIVING 35 MPH, THERE WAS A SUDDEN INCREASE IN ENGINE RPMS AND THE VEHICLE [VIN] INDEPENDENTLY. THE CONTACT MENTIONED THAT ACCELERATOR PEDAL WAS DEPRESSED SEVERAL TIMES IN AN ATTEMPT TO RELEASE THE PEDAL, BUT THE VEHICLE FAILED TO STOP. THE CONTACT STATE…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16E026000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 06V119000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 05V520000 VISIBILITY
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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