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Originally posted by Rara:
Originally posted by RogerB:
Originally posted by contour_phoenix_when:
Fusion is the Contour's Phoenix
Wait, I thought Contour was the Merkur's Phoenix?
Or was that Tucson?
More of a Tucson, the Merkur was ugly enough that you don't want it directly resurrected.
Bah. If you look at a Ford Sierra 4-door sedan, the styling lineage to the Contour is obvious.
And the Euro XR4s are very nice looking, IMHO. The US bumpers really uglified it.
Function before fashion.
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"Toss the Contour into a corner, and it's as easy to catch as a softball thrown by a preschooler." -Edmunds, 1998
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Originally posted by contour_phoenix_when:
Fusion is the Contour's Phoenix
Not until it has a MTX.
Until then it is just another 4 door idiot hauler.
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They're still waiting for certification on the MTX for the Fusion?  --T.J.
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It was the brain child of Jack Nasser's competion for CEO of Ford. So when he took the job he made sure it didn't last long, but nether did he.
-Andy
Andy W.
The problem with America is stupidity.
I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment
for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety
labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
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Originally posted by contour_phoenix_when:
Fusion is the Contour's Phoenix
I think the Phoenix was Pontiac's Citation.
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Originally posted by Beowulf:
Originally posted by contour_phoenix_when:
Fusion is the Contour's Phoenix
Not until it has a MTX.
Until then it is just another 4 door idiot hauler.
But it can be had with an MTX. Unfortunately only with the 4 cylinder engine.
Or at least the published specs show a five speed manual option for the 2.3 liter 4 cylinder.
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" Fusion is the Contour's Phoenix "
Big Jim so you sat in the fusion I guess I should have said the " fusion is the tarus's Phoenix "
Yet no torquey 3800 is being offered in the fusion.
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Originally posted by contour_phoenix_when:
" Fusion is the Contour's Phoenix "
Big Jim so you sat in the fusion I guess I should have said the " fusion is the tarus's Phoenix "
Yet no torquey 3800 is being offered in the fusion.
I have not driven one yet. Maybe I'll end up with one as a business rental car. My company uses Budget, and I end up in a lot of Chevy Malibu's and smaller. I don't care for the new Taurus and try to avoid them. Last week I got lucky and got a Buick Rendivous for the price of a mid size.
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Originally posted by Big Jim:
My company uses Budget, and I end up in a lot of Chevy Malibu's
That's gotta suck. I had an '02 Malibu rental car. God was the handling on that thing ever pathetic. Where I used to live there was one offramp with a (frankly rather high) speed limit of 30 mph, which I always used as an impromptu skidpad. My T-Bird could do 46 safely. My dad's Grand Cherokee could manage 38 without complaint. In the Malibu, I couldn't exceed 32--that's right, two miles an hour over the posted limit--without all 4 tires screaming and understeering so much I had to fight it to keep from plowing off the road. The only car I've ever driven that was worse was a 1986 Buick Riviera with 270k on the original shocks, and even it wasn't far behind.
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