2003 Ford Taurus review from North America

Every door has had problems either latching... or the entire interior side falling off. Literally, every door.

The passenger side under the dashboard flooded every time it rained, once leaving 2 inches of water in my car. Got that fixed under the warranty right before the warranty expired. Soon after it began to do it again, so I took it back to the Ford shop that fixed it, and they refused to fix it again, even though they should have fixed it the first time. It created problems with my heat blower, which they said they fixed the first time they fixed the car, but it still makes the same annoying buzzing noise.

Ever since I got the car, the transmission slips. It has begun to smoke 4 times under the hood after driving it. The smoke would clear, and when we'd start the car back up, it would stop and the dealer couldn't figure out what was wrong with it the first time, I took it to another place, who couldn't locate the problem either. Fortunately it hasn't done it for about 6 months now.

Three times in the past 4 months my car would not start. We would have to leave it alone for like a half an hour and then it would finally start, after mild heart attacks thinking we were going to have to foot another car repair bill.

I'm just having way too many scares with this car, ever since I got it, when it did not have very many miles on it. I baby it, so it's not like I treat it poorly.

Perhaps your company should check out the problems I have stated and see if they can be prevented on future models.

If those problems had not occurred, I love everything else about it. It is the most comfortable car I have ever driven interior wise, and if I wasn't so afraid of more defects with other Fords, I would surely purchase one as my next car.