Ford Freestar - 2005 Review

We bought this minivan new in 2005 and it has been the worst car we have ever owned.

We have already put so much money into this car and it seems like it just won't stay running for very long these days without there being a problem.

We only have 53,000 miles on it and at 40,000 miles, we were just driving on the busy, city highway, the car wouldn't accilerate anymore.  It just died in the middle of the highway (very safe!!!).  The transmission was totally gone in a 4 year old car with only 40,000 miles on it.  So the cost of the work was over $3,000 and we were without a car for about a week which wasn't easy for the family.  It was $3,000 for a refurburished, Ford transmission that is under a 100,000 warranty.  We'll see how long the refurbished one lasts when then new one didn't make it much past 40,000.

The quality is so poor on this car.  Everything about it is made very cheaply and things break easily.

The good thing about this car is that it has leather seats and it had a DVD player in the car.