Originally posted by chrisilversvt:
and whats wrong with that???????????????????????and a contour is still a contour,and in this case slower than a v6 mustang....so whats your point exactly?????


My point is that it's very difficult to associate the Mustang's history and legacy as a muscle car with a V6 platform. If all I cared about when I bought a car was what was 'faster', then I suppose I could justify buying a V6 Mustang over the Contour, or getting upset that my Contour was slower. Vehicles, believe it or not, are not entirely about how fast you can run the quarter mile. The image they have and the way they represent you are also a part of that. V6 Mustangs don't represent muscle cars at all, and if you think you're driving a muscle car with a V6 mustang then you are delusional.

The reason the 'Contour is still a Contour' argument doesn't apply here is that the Contour has no legend or mystique as a fast car. So if you get beat in a race by anything, or beat something in a race, you can't say 'a Contour is still a Contour'. That's why people get in trouble when they start to think their 15.5 second Contour is fast, because then you're trying to elevate your Contour to a status you have no business trying to give it.

...And as someone else mentioned in this thread, people who drive V6 Mustangs think their cars are the fastest thing in the world. I have a book 6 inches thick of good V6 Mustang jokes I've told to V6 Mustang drivers.