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Model years to avoid

Lincoln MKZ

What it says about you

Opinion

A Fusion in a good suit, and the hybrid cost the same as the petrol, which was quietly remarkable.

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

14 model years on record, 2,557 complaints filed. No year stood out against this model's own history — which means it has not drawn unusual complaints, not that it is a good car.

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.

  • confirms 2007, 2008, 2010 peak 29.9% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2020 1 recall 3 complaints
  2. 2019 1 recall 29 complaints
  3. 2018 2 recalls 33 complaints
  4. 2017 4 recalls 248 complaints
  5. 2016 7 recalls 117 complaints
  6. 2015 11 recalls 154 complaints
  7. 2014 14 recalls 210 complaints
  8. 2013 13 recalls 223 complaints
  9. 2012 6 recalls 350 complaints
  10. 2011 7 recalls 367 complaints
  11. 2010 9 recalls 169 complaints
  12. 2009 7 recalls 114 complaints
  13. 2008 5 recalls 281 complaints
  14. 2007 5 recalls 259 complaints

What does a Lincoln MKZ 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.