Land Rover Range Rover vs Ford Freestar

Both cars' complete complaint records, side by side.

Read the totals carefully. NHTSA publishes no sales figures, so the car that sold more collects more complaints regardless of quality. The rows worth weighing are the proportions — the share of complaints that involved harm, and which part dominates.

Measure	Land Rover Range Rover	Ford Freestar
Complaints on file	1,307	3,223
Model years covered	1987–2025	2004–2007
Worst model year	2015	2004
Best model year	1994	2007
Crashes reported	81	43
Fires reported	50	28
Injuries reported	55	46
Deaths reported	4	1
Most complained-about part	Transmission & Drivetrain	Transmission & Drivetrain
Share of complaints involving harm	14.5%	3.7%

Land Rover Range Rover by year

3 2 6 14 6 9 13 46 50 27 28 38 34 7 25 133 61 43 80 22 36 5 17 20 23 37 67 102 95 84 38 27 28 16 3 33 16 13

87 88 89 90 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Complaints filed with NHTSA, by model year. Bar colour is the FaultScore grade: A B C D F ungraded

What breaks

Transmission & Drivetrain 239 18.3%

Engine & Cooling 158 12.1%

Steering 151 11.6%

Suspension 125 9.6%

Electrical System 120 9.2%

Brakes 76 5.8%

Airbags 71 5.4%

Fuel & Propulsion 69 5.3%

Ford Freestar by year

1,600 1,093 453 77

04 05 06 07

Complaints filed with NHTSA, by model year. Bar colour is the FaultScore grade: A B C D F ungraded

What breaks

Transmission & Drivetrain 1,860 57.7%

Engine & Cooling 254 7.9%

Electrical System 250 7.8%

Body & Structure 138 4.3%

Seats 122 3.8%

Brakes 116 3.6%

Acceleration & Cruise Control 101 3.1%

Steering 53 1.6%