Mercury Mystique
Owners filed 1,019 complaints across 9 model years of the Mercury Mystique. The 1995 drew the most (335).
Model years9
Complaints1,019
Recalls49
Fires38
Deaths1
Which Mercury Mystique years should you avoid?
Going by 1,019 owner complaints filed with NHTSA, the Mercury Mystique years to avoid are 1995.
- 1995335 complaints, 2.1× a typical Mystique year, most often about the engine.
How this is worked out: each year is compared with a typical year of the same model, which takes most of the difference in sales out of it, and its share of serious failures is compared with every other car of the same model year, because older cars were complained about differently. A year needs 25 complaints to be judged at all. Complaints are unverified owner reports. Full method →
Every Mercury Mystique model year compared
Complaints per year| Year | Complaints | Relative volume | Recalls | Fires | Crashes | Most reported | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 2 | 0 | — | — | Air Bags › Frontal › Driver Side › Inflator Module | Routine | |
| 2001 | 2 | 0 | — | — | Vehicle Speed Control | Routine | |
| 2000 | 63 | 5 | — | 7 | Structure | Routine | |
| 1999 | 128 | 4 | 1 | 14 | Structure | Fatalities reported | |
| 1998 | 231 | 11 | 7 | 9 | Suspension › Front › Springs › Coil Springs | Above average | |
| 1997 | 71 | 7 | 3 | 4 | Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine | Routine | |
| 1996 | 185 | 10 | 12 | 7 | Power Train › Automatic Transmission | Routine | |
| 1995Avoid | 335 | 12 | 15 | 13 | Power Train › Automatic Transmission | Above average | |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 | — | 1 | Fuel System, Gasoline › Storage › Tank Assembly | Routine |
Data: NHTSA complaint and recall files, October 2026. Complaints are unverified owner reports.