Considering buying some Ford StockI never said I was going to switch to another brand. I said I would "start looking at other makes" but that's as far as I went. I want to stick with Lincoln but any intelligent and reasonably cautious person will look at what is offered when in the market for a new vehicle.
I am not having problems with my current Lincoln (2019 MKZ Hybrid). It has been wonderful. Of course, the 2019 model year of the Z was also the 7th consecutive year of production of essentially the same vehicle, with improvements (and appearance changes) along the way, thus by the 2019 model year, pretty much all of the "bugs" had been worked out of the MKZ.
My previous vehicle (2016 MKC) had a couple annoying things that made me not regret turning it in 3 months before the end of its lease (I asked about getting out of that lease earlier than 3 months but was turned down), and some of the earlier models I've had (2013 MKZ-H, 2009 MKS, and 2007 MKZ) had an issue or three, here and there.
I am always looking ahead at candidates for my next vehicle, planning at least a couple years ahead for a possible next purchase. What I have read on this web site about quality/reliability issues with current Lincoln offerings and what I have read in publications like Consumer Reports tend to give me pause. Thus, I guess I am one who just "read something about them being 'not reliable'" and I don't apologize for that, although I will continue to collect information and continue to evaluate things as the time to buy nears.
Three of the current four Lincoln models have "Far Below Average" ratings for reliability in Consumer Reports (only the Navigator has as much as a "middlin" reliability rating of "Average").
That disappoints me as I really want Lincoln to do well. After all, I own F stock, plus I've had a lifelong "thing" for Lincolns (my first girlfriend's dad was mayor of the town, and he used to pick up my girlfriend--his daughter--and me at the junior high once a week and take us to the drive-in for lunch in his new, chocolate brown Lincoln Continental Mark III; I remember thinking even then that someday I, too, would drive a Lincoln).
I do considerable reading and research before committing to any major purchase. I won't buy a vehicle that has a "far below average" reputation for reliability. I just won't.
For 3 consecutive years, I was one of those chosen to submit customer experience reports to Consumer Reports on the vehicles I had then, a 2009 MKS, then a 2013 MKZ-H. The magazine uses those ratings in building its customer experience reports.
As new-vehicle purchase time nears, I will do more and more reading and research. I realize fully that any vehicle's reliability can improve over time as the manufacturer gets more experience with building it and as customers identify issues needing work. I can't buy another 2019 MKZ-h. Lincoln doesn't make it anymore. I have to look at what Lincoln is offering at the time I am in the market for a new vehicle.
During the last few years of the MKZ's production, its reliability improved a lot, thus my satisfaction with my 2019 Z-h, but my great experience so far with a vehicle that Lincoln had been building (and improving) for 7 consecutive years is no guarantee that my next Lincoln of a completely different model will be equally reliable and equally well-behaved. It doesn't work like that.
Each model is different and, based on what I have read, 3 of the 4 current Lincoln offerings have serious reliability issues. I am not "done" doing my research. I am not yet ready to buy. Weighing the "pros and cons" will be an ongoing thing until I make a decision and sign the check.
Darling Wife thinks my MKZ-H looks sharp but she would like something that's easier to enter/exit (we are no longer spring chickens) so I'm leaning toward a small or mid-size SUV.
I hope very much that by the time I am ready to sign the check for a new vehicle, whatever vehicles Lincoln is offering by then will have at least good (better yet, very good to excellent) reputations for reliability--enough so to give me confidence in a 6th consecutive new Lincoln for me.
My position stands unchanged: I love Lincoln. I sincerely want it to do well. But, based on what I have read recently, the current offerings have reliability issues (3 of them especially). I don't and won't apologize for being cautious and judicious in how I spend my money.
Lincoln, I love you, but you need to work on your reliability issues.Tue, 05 Oct 2021 05:42:02 +0000
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