Troy,
I do want to thank you for visiting. Should I share with you my concern about there not being a suitable replacement for my SVT Contour when the time arrives?
I think you (Ford/SVT, not necessarily you personally) should consider what car all of the SVT Contour, as well as other Contour enthusiasts are going to buy when they wear out, grow weary of, or just want to trade their CDW-27 platform car.
I think you will agree that this crowd is not an SUV crowd, and not a TownCar or Mustang crowd either.
Personally, I will be looking for a 4 door sedan with similar or better performance numbers across the board, that I can shift and use the clutch.
Still want good value for the money, but value, to me at least, includes the support part of the equation.
Personally, I doubt a two door Focus Hatchback is going to be in the running here at Chez Boner. However, Subaru, VW, Audi and BMW to name a few do have some rides that we will consider. But currently, Ford has taken themselves out of contention if my SVT Contour is totalled or stolen. Not even the Mazda 626 had enough ZoomZoom to convince me to buy. There is nothing that I could buy NEW today. Perhaps a used SVT. (That is how I got my current one.) But even those are becoming fewer and further between.
So, to me, it appears that Ford/SVT has written me off as a customer.
So my question is, what are you (Ford/SVT) doing to provide me with the type of car I want to buy?
I do hope to meet with you face to face so we can have a friendly chat at SpringZing. We can sit down, share an AdultDrink and talk about how Ford is going to make the collective automotive lives of the enthusiasts here better.
Because, frankly, that's what we want. If we succeed and are happy with our cars, we will also be happy with Ford. So, we are more likely to buy our next car from Ford.
I think one of the problems is Ford is looking at ALL car buyers as APPLIANCE buyers. The people on this website did not buy cars as appliances. We are value conscious, but still enthusiasts non-the-less.
TB
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Tony Boner
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[This message has been edited by tboner (edited March 29, 2001).]
