Vehicle report
1988 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL
This model year
What the record shows
The 1988 Lincoln Continental is a large car, and the 14th model year of a nameplate NHTSA records from 1975 to 2020.
The EPA rated one configuration: a single 3.8-litre six-cylinder engine, front-wheel drive only, a single transmission, Automatic 4-spd and running on regular gasoline.
Combined fuel economy is 18 mpg.
The federal record holds 84 owner complaints, 2 investigations and 45 service bulletins for it.
Counts are reports, not rates. A complaint is something an owner chose to file; it is unverified and unadjusted for how many of these cars were sold, so the useful comparison is against other model years of the same car. Recalls and investigations carry more weight because a manufacturer or regulator acted on them.
Reading this report
Complaint counts are reports filed with NHTSA, not failure rates. A common model collects more of them than a rare one that breaks more often.