Contour?
I'm still waiting for that perfect Tempo replacement.
As for sales, what do we have, here, a few thousand members? Ford needed to sell, what, a couple hundred thousand of these a year to catch up with Honda and Toyota and recoup development costs, etc.
Ford is a volume car producer, not a boutique.
But here, this fat cow shat a diamond that nobody knew what to do with.
I'll spare the theorizing and speculation of what woulda-coulda-shoulda been, as it's been rehashed ad nauseum...
