While I can see that the Mazdaspeed6 is going into the same market niche as the SVT Contour, I believe they are two very different automobiles.

If you take a Contour SE Sport and compare it to an SVT Contour, and take a Mazda6s with the Sport package and make the same analogy, you will end up with a very different car than the Mazdaspeed6.

Brad "Diva": 2004 Mazda 6s 5-door, Volcanic Red Rex: 1988 Mazda RX-7 Vert, Harbor Blue.