CEG is quite possibly one of the best car enthusiast sites on the Web. Yes, the Contour was over looked by most of the general car buying public. For those that actually drove the the V6 models equiped with a manual transmission it's hard to see why. The CDW-27 platform was Ford's first World car. It is known as the Mondeo in Europe. At a cost of 1 billion it was seen as one of Ford's losses. People that really understand automotive manufacturing know otherwise. The Duratec and Zetec saw many years