I came here after owning a couple of Mondy's back in the UK. Up until then I never thought much about it ... the Mondy is Average-man's car there.
I test drove just about everything I could lay my hands on here, and DETESTED the handling of most ... plus the fact everything was an Auto. One day I saw a Mystique in the paper with V6 ... but what really caught my eye ... MANUAL!!! My eyes lit up, I researched on the web and read the word Mondeo ... I grinned. We went and test drove it, the water pump blew while we were in it. I found this web-site, got the pump fixed, then went back and bought it.
The poor black Mystique is up with the angels now though, but my wife has one, I now have my CSVT ... and I point out great little V6 Tours from the for sale ads to anyone who will listen.
Back in 2001/2002 there really wasn't much that handled near as good as the Contour (that I drove anyway), so there was no consideration of buying anything otherwise then.
