Well, I just replaced the 2.5L V6 in the 'Tour. It's a 98 LX, and the motor was from a 99 Mystique. The car and the new motor have about 70000 miles on them. When the 'Tour went out of commission almost a year ago, my wife bought a 98 Escort ZX2 with 35000 miles on it. She barely uses her car, has only put about 2000 miles on it in the year she's had it. The 'Tour is a really nice car and we love it, power seat, sunroof, spoiler, fogs, power everthing, silver frost, tinted, remote start, etc...... The ZX2 is pretty plan, power everything, spoiler, no sunroof, no remote start. However, having the engine fail in the 'Tour already once, how long till it happens again? What about the tranny? It's the CD4E, and they're famous for having problems. We would love to keep the 'Tour, but who knows how reliable it will be? Already it's skipping really quickly through the gears coming from a stop, then you press the gas a little harder, and it kicks into passing gear. This might happen once every twenty stop signs or so. What do you guys think???
