The new Autoweek is claiming that Ford has officially announced that the Mondeo will come to the US as a Mercury, probably in 2004.

The other announcement is that Ford of Europe has formed a group called SVE (Special Vehicle Engineering), which is their equivalent of SVT in the US. The group's charter is to build high-performance versions of Ford's production cars, mainly the Focus and Mondeo. So wouldn't it be nice if Mercury imports the SVE-modified Mondeos to the US?

Who knows, we may end up with a next-gen Contour SVT yet :-)

--Bob
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