When I totalled the Contour, I was looking at SHOs to replace it. The V6 ones have a sweet-ass Yamaha engine that is bulletproof. But everything else in the car was total crap (there are exceptions, and some SHOs will be problem free). So then I looked at a 96+ SHO with the Yamaha 3.4L V8. They are prone to cam sprocket failures, which wrecks the whole engine. The guys at v8sho.com were showing that 25 of the 250 members lost engines from that. The new engine cost $6500!
