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I have decided I want a Contour. But i dont know which year to buy. My last car was a 97 neon and it was totaled. I decided since i was a member of neons.org to come here before i decide on my car. Based on the fact that people who own the car can give me better oppinions than my mindles friends. FRom what I have seen the 98-2000 is the bodystyle i want. But i dont which of them is best and what price is acceptable to pay. I want the fully loaded version but if i cant find it i'll just get a base model as long as i get the v6. I can always modify it out. Please let me know what to get.
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At this point in time, I say get a 1999-2000.
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99-00's have 5 more hp. 00's have a slightly higher compression ratio and take to mods better. They also have the beefiest transmission.
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Originally posted by Jason43:
99-00's have 5 more hp. 00's have a slightly higher compression ratio and take to mods better. They also have the beefiest transmission.
Only when talking about the SVTs. He didn't specify he was looking for an SVT (unless you took "Fully Loaded" to mean SVT).
Are you looking for a manual or automatic?
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Well, the SVT is about as loaded as you could get 
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Get a manual transmission. Generally the reliability of a manual vs an auto tranny is 10:1. My 96 mystique has over 268 000 km (167 000 miles) and has never had any sort of powertrain problem. Actually I can't think of one benefit to an auto transmission besides the lazzyness factor.
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1999 Silver Frost SVT - 80,000km #2603/2760 Aug. 10, 1999.
1996 Mercury Mystique LS V6 MTX - retired @ 323,151km.
1995 Ford Contour V6 MTX-sold @ 214,000km
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Originally posted by KyleH:
Get a manual transmission. Generally the reliability of a manual vs an auto tranny is 10:1. My 96 mystique has over 268 000 km (167 000 miles) and has never had any sort of powertrain problem. Actually I can't think of one benefit to an auto transmission besides the lazzyness factor.
No wheel hop.
Must be that jumbly-wumbly thing happening again.
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Yes, he buys a 99-00 he can expect a unfixable dash warp problem. Dont buy 95-97 unless if has under 100k, or has over 100k but has had the wiring harness recall done. Secondly V6 have tons of problems way more than I4, go look at the "common problem and complaints" page, most of them say "V6 equipped vehicles only", let see off the top of my head, moosing, TH, you get water pump squeal, if you hit a puddle expect the car to stall, expect the IMRCs to fail several times, it has also more problems. Just MY opinion but the V6 is junk, it is problem ridden. The 4 cylinder is a much better engine, and as you can see from that page no problem relates directly to 4 cylinder engines only. I would also buy one that has rear disc brakes, drum brake e-brake cables are a piece of [censored], my e-brake cant be used currently because of how [censored] it is. It has been like that for quite sometime but I could care less about it.
I would buy a 97 Sport if I could do it over again, but I have a 96 GL and am pretty happy with it. My only complaint currently is how the seats squeak when hitting bumps. My car hanst given me to many problems, most of them are things are usually just fail over time, my radiator failed at 50,000 and cost $510 to get repalced, that kind of ticked me off, because I know people who have over 150k and have the original radiator.
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1996/7 SE MTX with 3.0L = my dream Contour.
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