“Our goal is to have best-in-class quality performance for F-150, Super Duty, Bronco, and Ranger trucks and Transit vans by 2025 – and to be among the leaders in all other segments,” said Ford spokesperson Maria Buczkowski in a statement to Automotive News. “Where we didn’t prevent quality issues in the first place, our obligation to customers is to detect and resolve them as quickly as possible. Recalls are one way to do that and a particularly visible part of overall quality performance.”
The second-highest number of recalls came from Stellantis North America, with 26 recalls affecting over 1.7 million vehicles. This suggests that Ford has a very long way to go achieve those goals of leading the industry in terms of quality, but at least things look a little better than they did last year.