I bought the car new in late '89, by the time it was three months old it had already been off the road for one month!
Gearbox went at 33K miles! A common fault on XR3i's and Orion injections.
ECU went.
Wheel Bearing went.
Major front brake problems.
By the time the car was 4.5 years old, 38K miles, I was getting a major bill of at least £200 every month.
At one point I lost a Cylinder, two Ford Dealers and a well known tuning company failed to spot this!
This car was my third Ford, and it will be my last, never, never, never again. I have instructed my Wife, that if I ever set foot inside a Ford showroom again that she should shoot me dead immediately!!!!!
I sold it a couple of years back and bought a Vauxhall instead!
This gentleman has obviously had problems with his car, but after 13 years of pleasurable driving with my automatic ford orion, I have only had one major problem. This was that the gearbox failed. The ford dealership paid for the replacement and I feel happy with the car. Like any major car company, isolated defects are to be expected, but a car will only run as well as it is maintained.
Note: A Comments RSS Feed 
is available. New comments appear in the Members Area before the main site