Forbes is completely wrong. Fleet sales are only good for FMC. Terrible for every other automaker, but A-OK for Ford.
And fleet sales are only going to go up with the Taurus PI and Explorer PI. And I haven't a clue how Ford is going to make a dollar selling the Taurus for $23K to police departments.
As for the recall paragraph...that was pointless. Sure a massive amount of Fords were recalled in 2011, but what were the model years. Frankly if Ford recalls a million F-150s from 2000 and some other auto maker recalls 250K 2011 model;s, I view the 2011 models as a more accurate indicator of recent quality than the 2000 models.