Ford has issued 77 recalls in 2026. Nobody else is close.

Safety

Start with the shape of the year. Through October 20, 2026, manufacturers have filed 651 recall campaigns with NHTSA covering 33,383,950 vehicles. Ford accounts for 77 of those campaigns — 11.8% of the filings — but 14,192,450 of the vehicles, which is 42.5% of everyone recalled. The next manufacturer by campaign count is Chrysler (FCA) with 34, less than half of Ford's total. By vehicles, FCA is also second, at 5,945,328 — Ford's campaigns cover about 2.4 times as many vehicles.

The leaderboard by campaigns filed in 2026: Ford 77; Chrysler (FCA — Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram) 34; Forest River 26; General Motors 24; Toyota 22; Hyundai 20; Daimler Trucks 18; Grand Design RV and Altec Industries 16 each; and a five-way tie at 14 among Volkswagen, Jayco, Jaguar Land Rover, Honda and Blue Bird. Campaign counts and vehicle counts tell different stories, though. Forest River is third by filings but its 26 campaigns cover just 7,186 RVs and trailers. Ford's lead is in both columns at once — the most filings and the biggest ones.

Ford's 14.2 million is concentrated, not spread evenly. The median Ford campaign in 2026 covers 11,405 vehicles — most recalls are small. But the five largest Ford campaigns account for 8,255,268 vehicles, 58% of Ford's total. The biggest single recall of 2026, from any manufacturer, is Ford's: campaign 26V-104 (Ford 26C10), covering 4,381,878 vehicles — 2021–2026 F-150, 2022–2026 Super Duty, Maverick, Ranger, Expedition, Lincoln Navigator and 2026 E-Transit — for an integrated trailer brake control module that can lose communication while towing. Behind it: 1,392,935 vehicles in a transmission-signal recall for 2015–2017 F-150s (26V-237), and two rearview-camera software recalls covering 889,950 (26V-123) and 849,310 (26V-124) vehicles.

Trucks are the center of gravity. Twenty-one of Ford's 77 campaigns touch the F-Series family — 18 involve F-150 through F-750 pickups and Super Duty trucks, the F-150 alone appears in 14, and three more cover F-53 and F-59 chassis. But the filings reach well past the truck line: 37 distinct Ford and Lincoln models appear, and the model years run from 2012 to 2027. A 2026 recall is a filing date, not a model year — a 2015 F-150 and a 2027 Navigator can be, and are, in the same year's paperwork.

The serious end of Ford's 77 is short. None of the 77 carries a park-outside order — industry-wide, only 21 of 651 campaigns do. Two carry do-not-drive orders: 26V-340, for a front lower control arm ball joint on 2021–2026 Bronco Sport and 2022–2026 Maverick, and 26V-090, for a brake pedal that may disconnect on 2025 Transit vans. Thirteen campaigns industry-wide carry a do-not-drive order. Everything else in Ford's 77 is a fix-it recall: schedule the repair, which is free, and drive on unless your specific campaign says otherwise.

Now the fairness paragraph, because the headline number needs it. Ford sells more trucks than anyone in America, and it has an enormous number of vehicles already on the road — every one of them a candidate for a filing that can reach back to 2012. A raw campaign count has no denominator: NHTSA data does not publish a defect rate per vehicle on the road, so 77 filings cannot tell you whether a Ford is more likely to have a problem than a Toyota. It is also worth noting what a filing is — the system working. Each of these 77 is a defect Ford reported and must fix for free. Ford led the industry in 2025 as well, with 146 campaigns covering 12,914,776 vehicles, so 2026 is not a sudden collapse in form: the filings are fewer than last year's pace, but this year's are bigger — Ford's 2026 vehicle total passed its full-year 2025 total before the end of October.