Got a new car just a few weeks ago. It's a bit larger than I'm used to driving, but otherwise worlds above the Contour. I am still addicted to the Contour and plan to have an SVT "someday" as a weekend or second car ... but with the reliability of my last two cars (Probe and Contour), I decided against Ford for a daily driver.
See
here for a list of the features it's got (way more than I ever imagined getting in a car given my budget) and a few teaser pics. One of these days I'll do a better photo shoot.
So far in this topic we've got three people who moved from a Contour to a 5th gen. Maxima .. interesting!