Ford dosent make the CDW27 platform at ALL anymore, the Mondeo/X-Type/Mazda 6 is the CDW-32 or something like that now. I never said these were crappy cars, I said possibly, it depends on your situation. If you have a 1999 with 30K miles and have done TONS of work on it, yeah, it's crappy, but theres some of you who have nearly 100K miles on it, and havent had many problems. It's all the owners' point of view.