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 ...

Once upon a time, Ford made sedans and fun stuff that was fairly accessible to most buyers. I'm not talking about vehicles like the Bronco and Raptor models. I mean stuff that wasn't priced into the ...

Matt Nelson is an automotive journalist with nearly a decade of experience in all things cars. He's spent years working at dealerships in sales, finance, and service. He's since traded in his pens and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Remember the SVT Contour? You'd be forgiven if you didn't. Pitched as an affordable American-made alternative to German sports sedans, the SVT Contour was only in production from 1998 to 2000, with ...

Is the 2000 Ford Contour SVT reliable? The 2000 Ford Contour has an average reliability rating of 3.6 out of 5 according to Cars.com consumers. Find real-world reliability insights within consumer ...

Jay Traugott has been writing about and testing cars for over a decade. His passion for everything with four wheels began when he saw "Back to the Future" as a kid. The DeLorean DMC-12 remains his ...

The Ford Contour SVT got a lot of attention from enthusiast types when it debuted in the 1998 model year, since it was a sporty, European-designed sedan with a powerful engine and mandatory five-speed ...

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, ...

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 ...