

Year | Make/Model | Nada Odds per 100 Cars | Lemon Odds per 100 Cars | ||
39 vehicles, 11.4 months per vehicle, 88500 miles driven2011 | Mercury Milan | [?] | see reported repairs | ||
39 vehicles, 11.4 months per vehicle, 88500 miles driven | |||||
69 vehicles, 11.6 months per vehicle, 100300 miles driven Refreshed for this model year.2010 |
Mercury Milan | [?] | see reported repairs | ||
69 vehicles, 11.6 months per vehicle, 100300 miles driven Refreshed for this model year. |
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25 vehicles, 11.8 months per vehicle, 109600 miles driven2008 | Mercury Milan | Join or sign in to view | see reported repairs | ||
25 vehicles, 11.8 months per vehicle, 109600 miles driven | |||||
26 vehicles, 11.3 months per vehicle, 121500 miles driven2007 | Mercury Milan | Join or sign in to view | see reported repairs | ||
26 vehicles, 11.3 months per vehicle, 121500 miles driven |
Mercury Milan Brand Reputation: Cons | ||
Year | Body/Powertrain | Comment |
2009 | 4dr Sedan 221-horsepower 3.0L V6 6-speed automatic FWD |
Persistent rumors that Ford will drop the line; Sable has already been dropped. The Milan Premier, although touted by Mercury as an upscale car, is nothing more than a re-badged Fusion and not as comfortable as my 2000 Taurus. see full Mercury Milan review |
2008 | 4dr Sedan 160-horsepower 2.3L I4 5-speed automatic FWD |
Ford is not known for beating the Japanese in reliability. But at the time I bought this the Milan was rated more trouble free than Camry by consumer reports. I have only added gas and oil. It runs the same at 54K as 18K. see full Mercury Milan review |
Mercedes-Benz GLK Brand Reputation: Pros | ||
Year | Comment | |
2013 | The smaller the Mercedes, the more heavily it tends to trade on the three-pointed star. So the #1 reason to consider a GLK250 carries over from the GLK350 review (text from the previous review in italics): I don't personally put much stock in brands, with cars or anything else. But each time I have a Mercedes-Benz for a week the continuing power of the marque has been unavoidable. Audi and BMW now command similar prices, but haven't yet acquired the same mystique. They probably never will for people born before 1980. Until the final years of the twentieth century, Audis were largely ignored as troublesome, modestly upgraded VWs and BMW was mostly known for the compact, still semi-affordable 3-Series. Neither could hold a candle to the company that invented the mass-produced automobile and that has been strongly associated with large, top-shelf automobiles ever since. Gayla (the site's programmer, my wife) is not a car person. Her take on the GLK: "Of course it's a good car, it's a Mercedes." Some of my friends who are more into cars--and who own competing makes--similarly employ a different tone when asking about "the Mercedes." They could afford one, so why don't they own one? Partly because the brand's mystique cuts both ways. They're not interested in making such a strong status statement. Can even a compact crossover make a strong status statement? Mercedes-Benz has done its best to make this so--check out the size of the three-pointed star on the GLK's grille. see full Mercedes-Benz GLK review |
Mercedes-Benz GLK Brand Reputation: Pros | ||
Year | Body/Powertrain | Comment |
2010 | 4dr SUV 268-horsepower 3.5L V6 7-speed shiftable automatic AWD |
Trickle-down reputation from the more expensive M-Bs. see full Mercedes-Benz GLK review |