"It really seems hit or miss with the Contour. Some folks have had an excellent run with them"
Maybe these guys owned other Fords and find the Contour's reliability acceptable.

"others run screaming from them given their experienes."
Probably Honda owners who don't expect their cars to break every couple of months.

"Build quality could have been better,"
Understatement of the year!

"but I chalk that up to the accountants at Ford cutting corners ever since the car's inception and which day it rolled off the manufacturing floor."
Accountants at Ford = Ford. Excuses, excuses.


2000 Black CSVT MagnaFlow resonator, SHO/K&N cold air intake