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Originally posted by James Smith:
So I take it that you can get to maximum speed? Being 143 m.p.h.

Oh by the way I had one our towns local police officers clock me on a top speed run and I have discovered that my car is speed limited but farther up than other SE's. At what the officer said was around 122. But the speedo was reading above 125.


I've had my '97 SE MTX to just under 130 mph, according to the speedo. I have several performance mods: KKM, Superchip (which is not presently in due to high gas prices), no resonator, and a high-performance muffler. I don't know what those things owuld have on the the top speed of the car. According to the first review of a '95 Contour SE MTX in Car & Driver, Ford told them that without a speed governor, the car would top out at 138 mph. This seems about right given the stock power numbers and weight, when compared to similar cars without limiters (like the second gen Probe GT, etc.).

Matt Harrell
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