 I bought this 1999 Taurus sedan about 5 years/42k miles ago.It has been OK, not particularly good or bad, except when it left me stranded at 1:30AM on a remote highway.I had had the accelerator cable replaced TWICE due to a broken plastic fitting which attaches it to the arm of the accelerator pedal.Luckily I had a knife and a piece of plastic in the trunk of the car, and in fifteen minutes I designed and carved a replacement fitting.The hardest part of this fix was lying with the door sill in my back trying to install this in the dark, by feel.It's a shame the design and test engineers couldn't have done their jobs in the first place.This part broke three times; why no recall?