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May 13 2020

Call Me Mondeo: 1999 Ford Contour SVT

DailyTurismo Uncategorized 'Murica, 5-speed, Contour, Contour SVT, Ford, Mondeo, Narwhal, Special Vehicle Team, SVT 6

The biggest complaint I have about this next car is the name. Say it out loud: I drive a Contour. An SVT Contour. Yuck. Contour. Blech. SVT Contour sounds like something you’d lookup in a medical encyclopedia and recoil in horror at the associated illustration. Ford should have kept the global name and called it […]

April 12 2013

5k: Mean Mondeo: 1999 Ford SVT Contour

DailyTurismo Uncategorized Contour, Ford, FWD, Mondeo, Sleeper, SVT 2

The Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique were based on Ford’s CDW27 platform, a confusing amalgam of acronyms, but it was a global platform that was used to build the Europe-only Ford Mondeo and later the Jaguar X-Type. Take a workaday chassis and add a dose of magic from Ford’s Special Vehicles Team and you get […]