The Lemon Index

Brands · No brand score

Lincoln.

Every Lincoln model we track: 6 with a Lemon Index, 2 with owner complaints.

Best Lincoln MKC 49 · Worst Lincoln Aviator 156

2010 Lincoln MKX, illustration

Every Lincoln, ranked. Lower is better. 100 is the average car.

Each score covers that model's own model years. Lincoln wasn't one of the 22 brands in our 2010–2022 study, so it has no brand score.

More Lincoln models with owner complaints. No score: we don't have their U.S. sales by year, so each page shows the complaints and recalls.

Most reliable Lincoln

MKC.

about half as many complaints as the average car.

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Lincoln MKC49

Least reliable Lincoln

Aviator.

about one and a half times the average car's complaints.

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Lincoln Aviator156

The Lemon Index counts owner complaints filed with the U.S. government (NHTSA) in a car's first 3 years, per car sold, against the average car of the same model years (100 = average, lower is better). It measures complaints, not crash safety. How it works · Every brand

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