Originally posted by 2000GreenTour:
1. The new 500 is a full sized car, bigger than Contours, about Avalon sized. All new and no relation to Mondeos. It's coming in 6 months.
2. For the 500th time,  the new CD338 car, formerly know as 'Futura', is coming in a year. It is Mazda 6 based and again, no relation to the Mondeo.
3. The Mondeo that most of CEG has been longing for is on its way out in Europe, so quit asking "When is it coming to the US??" and "Why..?"
4. "Escort was better than the Focus"???? Hardly, it was slow, boring, and did I mention slow?
5. "Taurus is one of Ford's good cars" ????? It is ready for the graveyard. Been virtually the same since 1986.
6, Finally, the 2000 model year was the last of the Con-tiques. And only the Contour SE was "fleet only". There were SVT's, SE Sports, and Mystiques available at dealers that year.
GRR!  Beat me to it! 
#6 though, my 2000 SE was not a fleet vehicle. It's not a sport, just another ATX v6. 
I also saw a 500 a couple weeks ago, and it is way bigger than my 2000 Contour and even dwarfs my mom's 2000 Taurus.
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