Once upon a time, Ford made sedans and fun stuff that was fairly accessible to most buyers. I'm not talking about vehicles like the Bronco and Raptor models. I mean stuff that wasn't priced into the ...

Return with us to the days when Ford Motor Company saw an opportunity to challenge BMW for a slice of the sports sedan pie. The year was 1998, and the car was the SVT Contour, a compact sedan ...

Ford's bicontinental $6 billion babies, the Contour/Mystique twins, have been a sales disappointment in America. Their European cousin, the Mondeo, is a million-seller and considered the class leader ...

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The goal of the SVT team was to create an aggressive sporting model in the attempt to bring back the glories of the original Taurus SHO which by this time had become portly, and more disappointingly, ...

The setting was a secret test track in California in the fall of 1996. Members of Ford’s Special Vehicle Team watched anxiously as a select group of mostly men with a big thirst for power and ...

Always look for the label when buying a Ford product. If you spot the “SVT” designation along fender or deck lid, be advised that those letters signify that the vehicle has been anointed by Ford’s ...

The Ford Contour SVT got a lot of attention from enthusiast types when it debuted in the 1998 model year, since it was a sporty, European-designed sedan with a powerful engine and mandatory five-speed ...

Over the past four years, Ford’s Special Vehicle Team has turned in some mighty impressive work. The SVT is the group of car nuts- mostly engineers – that is responsible for building limited-edition, ...

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