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Found the original window sticker, Sweet :)

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PHilly

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I was going through some papers and found some contour stuff my dad had gotten a while back. I found the original window sticker, my car was a little under 18,000 grand in '95! I kind of thought that was pretty expensive, but then thought about how much this car depriciated(sp).

Well just thought i'd share. I also found the TSB sheet, anyone know where i can punch these numbers in and figure out how to fix some of this stuff?

 
Damn that was just about loaded with everything. :cool:


Even an "Engine block immersion heater" :confused: Are you from New England/Canada?
 
BoSoxBruin said:
Those were the days... I also was shocked when I found out how much these cars MSRPed for back then...
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That was one reason Ford had trouble getting people to buy the Contour. The price was only slightly less than a similarly equipped Taurus, and many folks opted for the larger, roomier Taurus for essentially the same money.

I remember reading somewhere that Ford actually ended up losing a couple of hundred dollars on every Contour they sold, but they stuck with it since they didn't want to abandon that market segment. There was simply too big of a jump between the Escort and the Taurus without something to fill the gap.
 
was reading the sheet and i just now realized after 1 year of ownership what the lil clippy thing on the glove box was.....i never thought of hangin something there.....but still $18k???? DAYUM!!!
 
My Mystique was just under 20K in 1995...loaded. It really doesn't sound that expensive to me. Sure, it was more than the average Taurus of that day...but the Taurus didn't have half the things my Mystique had. It may have been bigger...but that's about it.
 
Beachboy said:
That was one reason Ford had trouble getting people to buy the Contour. The price was only slightly less than a similarly equipped Taurus, and many folks opted for the larger, roomier Taurus for essentially the same money.

I remember reading somewhere that Ford actually ended up losing a couple of hundred dollars on every Contour they sold, but they stuck with it since they didn't want to abandon that market segment. There was simply too big of a jump between the Escort and the Taurus without something to fill the gap.
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The Contour/Mondeo was one of those "world cars" whereas the Taurus wasn't. Ford sold smaller vehicles worldwide but offered bigger cars in North America because of demand. There's a slogan which states "give the people what they want" but I have to wonder if we had begun to be steered in a smaller car direction back then, would foreign car makers have as much of an advantage as they do now? Also, maybe we would have some of those sweet cars that everyone else gets except us.
Karl
 
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