I never heard of a contour in my life untill 1998. Actually, I still didn't hear, but saw one. It was an SVT silver in a mcdonald's parking lot and it caught my eye. before that, and for the two years after that, didn't know what they were. Then in 2000 I was looking for a car to get and kind of remembered the silver car in that parking lot. I asked my friend what it was and he didn't remember either, but I knew it was an svt, so I looked up all the svt models on the web.
"Contour, what the hell is that?"
That is what I said. Then I got my 95 SE and now notice every one that drives by. Ford's marketing on the contour sucks. There are millions of them on the road. They are everywhere and yet no one knows what they are even to this day. As far as conversations, the best was with my SE. It had dual exhaust and alot of engine mods and could keep up with the svt stock:
"Is that a contour?"
"yeah"
"Is it an SVT?"
"no"
"Just a grocery getter huh?"
"Not really"
Not to drag this on longer, but the best was with my friend in what is now MY svt about a year ago. We went to a hangout spot where all the civic and import drivers showcase their cars every night and started talking to them. They asked if it was fast and we said yes. Then the comment was said:
"What do you mean it's fast, it's a four door!"
Me and him raced two tricked out civics, one a hatchback and on the coupe and by 40mph we were beating them pretty bad. Came back and asked if anyone else wanted to give it a run. No one said anything.
