Is this Contour confused about its identity?

[Bob Blaylock]

Spotted, today, at the Deseret Industries thrift store parking lot in Sacramento—a Contour SE/Sport/SVT.

Am I mistaken, or are these three versions mutually exclusive? A Contour can be an SE, a Sport, or an SVT, but not any combination of two or all three of these, right?

And don't all Sports and all SVTs have disc brakes on all four wheels? This one has drums in the rear.

 

[bigboyricky93]

Hahahaha nice find!

 

[BrApple]

The SVT is all alone, but the SE can be an SE or an SE Sport.

For a post 98 the rear brakes depended on the transmission. A SE Sport could have either the CD4E or the MTX-75. When optioned with the MTX-75 the SE got rear disks. Note that for a pre-98 any vehicle with the Duratec received rear disks.

The Sport package for the SE included the spoiler, wheels, side skirts and leather wrapped steering wheel and shift knob w/MTX-75.

This person has just added the SVT and 24V badges to the standard badges that where on the car.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

The SVT is all alone, but the SE can be an SE or an SE Sport.

For a post 98 the rear brakes depended on the transmission. A SE Sport could have either the CD4E or the MTX-75. When optioned with the MTX-75 the SE got rear disks. Note that for a pre-98 any vehicle with the Duratec received rear disks.

The Sport package for the SE included the spoiler, wheels, side skirts and leather wrapped steering wheel and shift knob w/MTX-75.

This person has just added the SVT and 24V badges to the standard badges that where on the car.

I didn't think to look inside to see what kind of transmission it had. I guess, if what you say is correct, then it must have the CD4E automatic.

What do you suppose the chances are that this doesn't even have a 6-cylinder Duratech at all, but merely the 4-cyilinder Zetec? If it were a pre-98, then I guess, if what you say is correct, then the rear drums would prove that to be the case; but this is clearly a post-98 model.

 

[contour_r_us]

I didn't think to look inside to see what kind of transmission it had. I guess, if what you say is correct, then it must have the CD4E automatic.

What do you suppose the chances are that this doesn't even have a 6-cylinder Duratech at all, but merely the 4-cyilinder Zetec? If it were a pre-98, then I guess, if what you say is correct, then the rear drums would prove that to be the case; but this is clearly a post-98 model.

Unless it is my '95 'Tour which now has rear disc brake, and still is a Zetec 2.0 5spd vehicle. LOL Never can tell what was done over the course of ownership.