1987 Ford Thunderbird

The provided federal record spans 1990 through 2005 and contains no 1987 entry, so the 1987 Ford Thunderbird cannot be placed directly within the complaint-and-recall arc shown. Across the recorded generation, complaints rose from 167 in 1990 to a peak of 482 in 1993, then declined to 196 by 1997, while recalls held at four per year early on, dropped to one in 1994–1995 and 1997, and investigations disappeared after 1993; meanwhile, TSBs climbed steadily from 39 to 144 over that same span. Because 1987 predates every year in this dataset, the federal trend line offers no comparative signal for that model year. The target-year complaint profile does list Electrical System with 23 reports, Seat Belts with 15, Vehicle Speed Control with 6, and Hydraulic Service Brakes with 5, plus 18 fire complaints and 4 crash complaints, though the data does not specify root causes. Without an overall 1987 complaint or recall count in the record, these isolated categories cannot be benchmarked against later years. The concrete takeaway is that this federal record alone neither recommends nor warns against a 1987 Thunderbird, so the buying decision should rest on a thorough mechanical inspection and documented maintenance history rather than on NHTSA trend data.