Originally posted by The Striped SVT: ...if both cars were infront of you back when you bought your car (if you bought new) which car would you have bought
Without any doubt the SVT!
The Mazda6 has a plain and boring front end (the fog lights have been misplaced), the rear end looks a bit narrow and high, and the sport package looks like ugly aftermarket additions.
I personally put the Mazda6 in the anonymous cars category with the sedentary Honda Accord and Toyota Camry.
I'd have to say about the exact opposite...the 6 has some flare, some character...the SVT looks like a Contour with aftermarket additions.
Even with the inherent unfairness of making stylistic comparisons between a 1998-2000 model and a 2003-2004 model, I'd have to say your perception is still backwards.
Meaning no slight to non-CSVT owners, I'd say all Mystiques and non-SVT Contours (respectable cars in their own right) look like diminished versions of the CSVT.
It being the American version of the Mondeo, the CSVT is the benchmark, the Daddy.
But, Ford marketing, in its finite wisdom circa 1995, somehow came to believe it would be savvy to wade in slowly and first introduce the Contiques' various versions with ambiguously-Euro styling that was somewhat more domestic(ated), yet still suggest the "world-car" pedigree that all Contours and Mystiques certainly have. But remember, at that point, Ford Marketing had been twiddling with the world-car concept since the introduction of the Mercury Lynx ... and whatever the Ford version was called ... in 1977. So, it was too bad that, 18 years later, yet again displaying their retractable scrotums, Ford Marketing still thought it would be a smart move to bleach almost all hip, Euro styling cues out of the basic Contique design, unlike, say the Dodge Neon, the Chevy Cavalier and, when Ford finally woke up, their own Focus.
Like my brother once said, when you park a car you really love, you never accidently leave the lights on ... Because you always turn around and look at it as you're walking away.
