Originally posted by Buddy Palumbo:
Originally posted by CodeRed18s:
SVT Contours were not built on the same assembly line as the regular ones. Kansas City yes, but in a different part of the facility.
Hate to burst your bubble , but from what I was told years ago by a Ford/SVT employee , CSVTs were made on the same line , at the same time as non-SVTs . The same guys that were building the GL's , SE's & whatnot were putting the SVT's together also . An SVT could've been surrounded by base-model Contours on the line - it didn't matter . They were nothing more than just another car to the guys on the line , unfortunately . No special line , no special assemblers , no special treatment  .
Hentz is why it was known as the poor man's BMW, Ford wanted to cheeply put together a nice comfertable 4 door performance sedan. Something that was quick, fun to drive, and could be used as a family car to go on trips in, and thats exactly what they got out of it, which would more explain why they had it on the same production line as the rest of the contours, because it was hella cheaper to do that, rather then use their SVT engineers to put them together, that would cost more labor wise. But this makes me wounder, how much different reliability wise would the SVTC be if they had used SVT engineers to put it together? Or would it be no different?
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