Ford Recalls: Models Affected and Challenges in the Brand’s Green Transition

The Blue Oval house encountered new technical problems and was forced to make yet another recall of models in vogue overseas. Here are the Ford models in the workshop.

It’s a complex moment for Ford. The American brand has become a forerunner of the new green philosophy, announcing many new models with lithium-ion batteries. The first problems encountered did not help the brand image. Many, especially in the United States, retain the petrolhead conception. For decades the brand founded by the legendary Henry Ford focused on cars with powerful heat enginesbut that era is over.

Models that have made Ford’s history in Europe too, such as the Fiesta, are leaving the price list, and others have been redesigned to meet the needs of an increasingly universal market. The proclamations on ecology have made people turn up their noses to many, also because thousands of employees have been made redundant in recent times, opening up an inevitable crisis scenario.

The new “ecological” need will push many families to the streets. It is useless to get around it, according to many reports, there will be mass layoffs in almost all manufacturers. A new workforce will arrive for the manufacture of electric cars, but to date it is the workers of the old guard who have given everything with heart and soul to the cause.

In the coming years, the situation will not improve because Ford has become the champion of a green transition that seems more like a political obligation than a free choice. In this scenario, one eye must go to the past and another to the future, with the awareness that the partnership with Red Bull Racing in 2026 it will represent an important new phase.

The problems encountered by Ford

It is not the first time that we have told you about problems connected to maxi recalls of Ford thermal cars. The latter immediately had problems with the EVs. The ups and downs are inevitable, especially in certain stages of transformation, but the recalls have involved too old models of the house that are very popular in the United States.

In this case, the fault concerns Ford SUVs that had already encountered problems with the 360 ​​° cameras in the past. Now the same vehicles for the same breakdown will have to go back for repair again. 422,201 cars including the Ford Explorer and the Lincoln Aviator, as well as the Lincoln Corsair will undergo a recall to replace the cameras.

As reported by Reuters, Ford has already tried to solve the problem in 2021 and 2023 without succeeding in updating the image processing software. For this reason there have been several incidents and over 2000 reports due to the failure of the camera to display an image. There have been complaints and to all this was added a substantial number of warranty reports as well as a delicate issue with suppliers.

The house of the blue oval has specified that it intends to immediately identify the root cause and remedy it as soon as possible. Ford has become the automaker with the highest number of recalls in 2022 with a loss of billions of euros.