Ford's bicontinental $6 billion babies, the Contour/Mystique twins, have been a sales disappointment in America. Their European cousin, the Mondeo, is a million-seller and considered the class leader ...

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Today's Nice Price or No Dice Contour is an SVT, and that makes it a Special Vehicle indeed. The question is whether the price of this seemingly well-kept Ford makes it all the more special. As we ...

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When you conjure the image of an average, everyday automobile in your head, that image will probably be a four-door sedan. Muscle cars evoke speed and brashness. Pickup trucks evoke work and ...

The goal of the SVT team was to create an aggressive sporting model in the attempt to bring back the glories of the original Taurus SHO which by this time had become portly, and more disappointingly, ...

The Mercury-badged version of the Ford Contour, which itself was an Americanized version of the UK-market Ford Mondeo. This car has the 2.5-liter Duratec V6, rated at 170 horsepower, not the 200-horse ...

When Ford stopped making the antiquated Tempo/Topaz after 1994, what was to fill the suddenly empty compact-sedan void between the Escort/Tracer and Taurus/Sable? As it turned out, the rise of the SUV ...

Like most people, automobile engineers dream of having their cake and eating it too. For them, the goal is the perfect car; one that corners like a Corvette, accelerates like a Ferrari and coddles its ...

Over the past four years, Ford’s Special Vehicle Team has turned in some mighty impressive work. The SVT is the group of car nuts- mostly engineers – that is responsible for building limited-edition, ...