Talk:Ford Contour

message: Would be nice to get some numbers on how many Ford Contours they made over time. Probably should be a standard detail for any mass produced vehicle. -- KarlHallowell 22:23, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: They made 150,616 in 1995, but I don't have any more production data than that. IFCAR 12:54, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Manufacturing numbers? 

message: The Taurus introduced the SE trim line in 1998 as the middle trim, and seemed to be the successor for the Contour, because Taurus & Contour were midsize cars. -- Bull-Doser 05:53, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Contour Replacement

message: You've got to be kidding me.
It's this simple:
The Focus replaced the Escort and the Contour. The Fusion replaced the Taurus. The 500 is a fullsize car meant to compete with the FWD offerings from other companies, since the CV is more of a niche market. 
The Taurus did not get smaller to replace the Contour. The Focus was made to straddle the line between Escort and Contour. --Sable232 00:26, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I know the Focus replaced both the 
Escort and the Contour.  The Focus was priced sub-Contour and probably above the Escort. It also replaced the Mercury Mystique in Canada when Mercury was phased out. -- Bull-Doser 14:29, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Umm… 

message: Does anybody have more sources for all the hype that went into Ford's development of the Contour/Mystique under the "World Car" campaign? I remember the whole idea was to integrate European, North American, and other worldwide Ford resources leading to increased sharing of designs and technologies across the entire company. With a $6 billion cost, somebody must have gotten royally fired if in the end it flopped... Wl219 11:02, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "World Car" 

message: I propose a merger similar to what was done with Mercury Monterey van and Ford Freestar.  The article doesn't seem to have enough information or notability to stand on its own really, and is pretty much a clone of it Ford cousin.  This will also improve the Contour article giving it more substance. 74.204.40.46 (talk) 22:40, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is ludicrous. The Mystique article was taken intact and stuck on the end of this one. That isn't a "merge." Might as well just have two pages then. --Sable232 (talk) 17:35, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it is hopeless. I'll try to get down to properly merging it later. PrinceGloria (talk) 22:01, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OMG I did it... Still lots of work to do... PrinceGloria (talk) 09:36, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger of [[Mercury Mystique]]

message: OK, I haven't been there (the article) for ages and things have change a lot... I am not quite sure about some of the changes, and I'd like to discuss them there:
# I am not quite sure the new lead is better than the one I can remember. Any reasons for the change?
# The Mystique cannot quite be considered a rebadged variant, it had considerable changes to the front and rear sections. We can say they are a result of badge engineering, but to me a rebadge is something like Toyota Corolla and Geo Prizm
# I don't think we can talk of two "generations" of the Contour. It just had an MCE, I wouldn't call that a generation. Going by that, we'd have an all-new generation of Panther cars every two or three years!
# Far too much weight is attributed to the "Dishonorable mention" editorial from C&D, and there is a fair amount of POV and OR in citing that
# The Ford SVT Contour article consists entirely of trivia and is absolutely unnecessary
I guess those are the only major issues I see with the article, I'll gladly discuss those. I think I could also tweak a few details, but I'd like to sort the big stuff out before I go on to polish spelling or syntax. Kind, PrinceGloria (talk) 04:58, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  My have you changed... 

message: By mid-February 1997 it was no longer possible to order a 1997 model from the factory.  I took delivery of my customer-ordered 1998 model in early April 2007; it was the first one the dealer had seen.  I also think that the so called 1998.5 version, described in the article as "mid-production for the 1998 model", was introduced around September 2007, the traditional time for introducing the following year's changes.  I think some of that belongs in the main article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.252.179.125 (talk) 14:18, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  1998 & 19998.5 

message: Unless an official statement from Ford that states the Focus replaced the Contour in the US is found, I propose removing it from the list of sucessors.  The Contour did not have an official sucessor in the US. ANDROS1337TALK 05:06, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Successor, again... 

message: The Ford Contour was barely larger than the escort, which was a compact car.  But, Going by the fact that people say the contour was a mid-size car, wouldn't that effectively make the taurus a full-sized car, and the crown vic a super-full-sized car?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikimann1234 (talk • contribs) 15:32, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Ford Contour was not a midsize car.