Originally posted by jmsmathis:
yes but then i will not have any $$ to play with because i droped all the money on the car....svt tours are great but just not in my price range....plus i am planing on doing some crazy stuff to the se v6 in the not so far future that will make it much faster then any svt tour..i want to make it an all motor svt tour eater..full engine internal upgrades and etc...just some ideas i have floaiting in my head..my thinking is why buy something that is great if it costs a little more and i am going to replace most of the parts anyways with aftermarket performance parts!!does any one understand what i mean??



no we dont. It is totally a buyers market right now. You can get such a great deal on an SVT that it is almost a no brainer. You will be buying a car with 30 more HP and most likely far more options than the SE. I am ashamed to admit this but I hadn't even heard of the Contour SVT when I bought my tour back in 99. I got a great deal on it but if I had known that I could have paid 5 grand more new, I probably would have done it. Not to mention a lot of the parts you are going to end up replacing aren't going to be aftermarket replacement parts, they are going to be straight up SVT tour parts such as UIM and LIM