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Okay, I am just curious about how you guys came about purchasing and loving your tours. Here is my little story.....

so.. I was a young buck right..12yrs old and im watching TV and I see this commercial with this new ford car on it..dun,dun,dun... it the advertisement for the brand new contour!!!! So, I tell my mom "Hey i love that car, it looks so awesome!! can you buy it for me so i can have it when i get my liscense?".."Hell no im not buying that for you...buy it yourself when you get your liscense!!"

so the years go by and i get my liscense and i buy a 95 ranger xlt..had to sell it cause the insurance companies wanted to kill me financially be4 they would let me drive it!! then i got a 88 subaru DL, POS!!! then i sold it cause i hated it... then its time to go car shopping again!! and i run up on this champagne colored 95 contour!! and by then im thinkin like all other 16-17yr old, damn what a granny car!!! i want a sports car, mustang, eclipse something like that right? well a couple days later, im just like you know what i really do like this car... so i bought it and that is how i got smoothy!!!

which i guess you can say that is really wierd cause that is the first year for the contour here in the states and that was the model that i saw on the commercial when i was 12!!! isnt that wierd!!!

but thats my story..

ooooopps, somehow it got down to the bottom already just cause of me posting in all the other posts... oooppss!!

wanted a sedan to replace my Ranger.

wanted something very fun to drive.

wanted a 2000 A4 or SHO Taurus

found out they weren't making the sho anymore

drove A4 and started research on other similar cars

came across the SVT, test drove, compared to A4 and decided it wasn't worth all the extra money for the A4, bought the SVT.

sweet, that sounds cool!!

well when I started driving I started with my parents cars so I was driving a ford taurus for a few years and then my parents traded that in on a 95 mystique that my dad drove for about a year when he had a long commute into work everyday after he finished with that job the mystique was the car I drove to school for little bit after I graduated from the junior college and staarted work for a bit my parents told me it was time for me to get my own car so I started looking for something that would be pretty much like the mystique that I liked driving and ended up with a 98.5 silver SE V6 manual (mystique was also the V6 manual combo) I drove that for about a year and then totaled it by coming around a oily corner and slipping into the other lane and hitting a van headon after that I started looking again for a car and looked at

Nissan Maxima (few years old)
Nissan Altima (a year or 2 old)
VW Jetta (used but still most were to expensive with what I wanted on them)
Subaru Legacy GT (used and hard to find in manual in my price range)
a few older saab 4 door hatchbacks (damn insurance company wanted to much for one of them)
and of course that silly ford contour again

I ended up getting a new 2000 Silver SE V6 manual with just about all options (traction control/ABS/moonroof)

and so that is the car(my only car) I rack up my miles on now (about 40K a year)

My car was built in Kansas City. That is how it came to be.

LOL Colter...

HEH... Well son, when the mommy car and the daddy car really love each other, they do this thing called "intercourse"...

Heh.

depends on what part of the country you are from in some parts it would be intercars

OK, here we go
When i was 16 my parents gave me a 1982 Buick. Needed new trans and timing belt, sold it for 50 bucks. Next, bought a 1977 NOVA with a 305, used it to eat up civics b/c they didn't know about it. Sold it to my brother. Needed a new car quick, so i got to the dealership and bought a 91 Galant, threw rims and sound in it, drove it for two years then traded it in for a 1999 Tan Contour LX, (the four banger), had it for a year and a half or so, then sold it to my mom who still has it, bought a 1988 MX-6, it's ok, bought a '72 bug, fixed it and sold it for twice what i bought it, bought a 1969 Lincoln Continental, still needs work but it's pimp, sold the bug and the MX-6 and bought a 1996 Accord coupe, sweet car very clean and sounded great (audiowise, it to was a four banger and i'm not into rice), saw a 1998 Black SVT for $9500, traded in my accord of 10 months and now have the SVT. i haven't gotten the car i've really wanted yet, McLaren F1. still trying to get a loan for that. funny, no one wantsd to loan a 23 year old, single parent student who works part time a million bucks. sorry so long