Vehicle report
1984 LINCOLN TOWN CAR
This model year
What the record shows
The 1984 Lincoln Town Car is a large car, and the 8th model year of a nameplate NHTSA records from 1977 to 2013.
The EPA rated two configurations: a single 5-litre eight-cylinder engine, a single transmission, Automatic 4-spd and running on regular gasoline.
Combined fuel economy ranges from 15 to 16 mpg depending on which one you have.
The federal record holds 15 owner complaints, 1 investigation and 10 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.