What is the best year for the Lincoln MKX?
No official dataset can support one universal best year. Use the table to compare complaint patterns and EPA figures, then open the shortlisted years for recall campaigns and exact specifications.
Model-year matrix
Lincoln MKX
which year?
Compare every Lincoln MKX model year the EPA recorded, 2007 to 2018. See complaint patterns, fuel economy and configurations side by side, then open any year for recall campaigns and the full dossier. Confirm against the official NHTSA recall search.
Evidence-led answer
Looking for the best Lincoln MKX year—or years to avoid?
The official records cannot honestly name a best, worst or most reliable year. Complaint totals have no sales, mileage or age denominator. They can show where more reports were filed and which components were named, giving you years to investigate more closely before checking the exact car and its VIN.
Which Lincoln MKX years should you avoid?
The records cannot justify a blanket avoid label. Years with more reports are surfaced below as research priorities, not predictions about every car from that year.
01 · More reports to inspect2007
298 indexed complaint reports; air bags is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2007 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect2008253 indexed complaint reports; air bags is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2008 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect2013163 indexed complaint reports; service brakes is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2013 dossier →Do not read this as an avoid list. Older and higher-selling model years usually accumulate more reports. A low count can also mean a newer, rarer or poorly matched vehicle—not a safer one.
Complaint totals are counts of owner-submitted allegations, not confirmed defects, and they carry no denominator: they are not adjusted for how many cars were sold, how old they are, how far they are driven, or how much publicity a fault received. A high-volume or older year will usually show more reports than a rare or recent one. The site does not convert these into a reliability score, because the data needed to do that honestly is not in the public record.
Direct comparison
Compare two Lincoln MKX model years.
Choose any two years. The URL keeps the pair so you can return to the same comparison. Every figure below is an observed official record or EPA estimate—not a reliability score.
2017 Lincoln MKX
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 52
- Combined EPA economy
- 19–20 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 4
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $3,100–3,250
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelselectrical system 13service brakes, hydraulic 13engine 7
Open the 2017 evidence dossier →2018 Lincoln MKX
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 30
- Combined EPA economy
- 19–20 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 4
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $3,100–3,250
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsunknown or other 8electrical system 4service brakes 4
Open the 2018 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2018 has 22 fewer indexed complaint allegations than 2017.
This is not a rate or reliability finding. The counts have no sales, mileage, age or exposure denominator, and newer years have had less time to accumulate reports.Side by side
Lincoln MKX by year.
Complaint bars are scaled against this model’s own highest year, so they compare years with each other and with nothing else.
| Year | Complaints | Most-reported components | Combined MPG | EPA configs | Annual fuel cost | Dossier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 30 | unknown or other 8electrical system 4service brakes 4 | 19–20 | 4 | $3,100–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2017 | 52 | electrical system 13service brakes, hydraulic 13engine 7 | 19–20 | 4 | $3,100–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2016 | 151 | service brakes 37engine 32electrical system 27 | 19–20 | 4 | $3,100–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2015 | 19 | engine 6unknown or other 6electrical system 5 | 19–20 | 2 | $3,100–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2014 | 35 | service brakes 10engine 7power train 7 | 19–21 | 2 | $2,950–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2013 | 163 | service brakes 60electrical system 30unknown or other 21 | 19–21 | 2 | $2,950–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2012 | 84 | service brakes 26electrical system 17power train 11 | 19–21 | 2 | $2,950–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2011 | 149 | electrical system 41engine 24unknown or other 24 | 19–21 | 2 | $2,950–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2010 | 111 | air bags 54service brakes 22seats 6 | 19–20 | 2 | $3,100–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2009 | 65 | air bags 35service brakes 10electrical system 7 | 18–19 | 2 | $3,250–3,400 | Dossier → |
| 2008 | 253 | air bags 157power train 30service brakes 17 | 18–19 | 2 | $3,250–3,400 | Dossier → |
| 2007 | 298 | air bags 155power train 35fuel/propulsion system 32 | 18–19 | 2 | $3,250–3,400 | Dossier → |
Evidence snapshot generated . “Not indexed” means NHTSA holds no complaint record matching this exact year, make and model — not that no fault occurred. Recall campaigns are not summarised here: NHTSA publishes no bulk recall dataset, and fetching them per year would take longer than the page should. Each year’s dossier shows its recalls in full, live from NHTSA.