The Contour and Mystique replaced the Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz in the U. S., and were based on Ford's CDW27 platform.

Development of the European Mondeo and its derivatives, the Contour and Mystique, was a major project for Ford Motor Company.

In 1998, Ford restyled the Contour and Mystique.

Ford has also added an SVT version for the Contour, which utilized a specially tuned and modified version of the 2. 5 L V6 that produced ( 1998 MY ) / ( 1999 / 2000 MY ) and was only available with a 5-speed manual transmission.

1998 – 2000 Ford Contour SVTAlso included with the SVT Contour was new bodywork, seats and trim, white-faced gauges, larger wheels with ultra high performance tires, upgraded brakes and a retuned suspension.

The Contour SVT was available primarily by special order by specially designated Ford dealerships.

In mid-production for the 1998 model, ( manufactured after Feb 98 ) Ford decided to make several more changes to the SVT Contour.

* The last Ford Contour rolled off the assembly line on October 19, 2000

Although Car and Driver staff wrote an article in 2009 apologizing for the inclusion of the Ford Contour on the " Ten Best " list, it was the only car the staff did not outright recant from the list, but did cite that, in hindsight, the car should have been considered too small for its price range to properly meet criteria, and that this is the likely reason for the car's failure to achieve widespread appeal.

When the first Mondeos were sold abroad, Ford New Zealand offered a Telstar Contour and a Telstar Mystique ( named after the U. S. Ford and Mercury versions of the Mondeo respectively ).

The initial generation of the Mondeo was developed as a " world car ", along with North American models marketed as the Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique until 2000, and as the Ford Fusion from model year 2013 and on.

Intended as a world car, it replaced the Ford Sierra in Europe, the Ford Telstar in a large portion of Asia and other markets, while the Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique replaced the Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz in North America.

This engine, first unveiled in the Mondeo's North American cousin, the Ford Contour, is characterized by its smooth operation, chain-driven camshafts and an ability to operate using only half its 24 valves at low engine speeds.

The Mondeo was sold in North America as the Ford Contour

The North American counterpart to this model was known as the Ford Contour SVT.

* Ford Contour, a motor car

Of the three names that had constituted Ford's personal luxury lineup, Mark, Thunderbird, and Cougar, the Cougar returned first and was based on the Ford Contour sedan.

Hardly had Mrs. Roebuck driven off when a rusty pick-up truck, father or grandfather of Senor `` Moriarty's '' Ford sedan, came screeching to a dust-swirling stop, and a brown face appeared, its nose threatened by shards of what had once been the side window.

But Henry Ford used the planetary transmission in his Model T and earlier cars and, in 1905, as a precautionary measure, took out a license from the man who claimed to be its inventor.

Put another way, Ford innovated its way to a lower price point and by doing so turned a huge potential market into a reality.

In 2006, an internal review of costs and realisable value on investment led Ford to consider divesting itself of parts of its Premier Automotive Group.

* 1927 – Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.

According to Ford ’ s The Modern Theologians, “ Mary Daly has done more than anyone to clarify the problems women have concerning the central core symbolism of Chrisianity, and its effects on their self-understanding and their relationship to God .”

The # 1 car was driven by Ken Miles and Lloyd Ruby, and together with the # 2 car driven by Bruce McLaren / Chris Amon ( 1st overall ) and # 5 car driven by Bucknum / Hutcherson ( 3rd overall ) gave Ford its first victory in a 24 hour race.

Secondly, Ford officials admitted later, the company's contentious relationship with Miles, its top contract driver, placed executives in a difficult position.

In 1960, Ford unveiled the new Falcon in Australia, only months after its introduction in the United States.

The Ford GPW abbreviation actually meant G for government use, P to designate its wheelbase and W to indicate its Willys-Overland designed engine.

Willys also followed the Ford pattern by stamping its name into some body parts, but stopped this in 1942.

* 1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.

Among its more famous critics are the evolutionary biologists Richard Dawkins, Ford Doolittle, and Stephen Jay Gould – notable, given the diversity of this trio's views on other scientific matters.

In 2000 Rover Group was broken-up by BMW and Land Rover was sold to Ford Motor Company, becoming part of its Premier Automotive Group.

During its ownership by Ford, Land Rover was once again associated with Jaguar-the first time the two companies had been under the same umbrella since the British Leyland era.

On 11 June 2007, Ford Motor Company announced its plan to sell Land Rover, along with Jaguar.

On 26 March 2008, Ford announced that it had agreed to sell its Jaguar and Land Rover operations to Tata Motors, and that the sale was expected to be completed by the end of the second quarter of 2008.

Ford acquires the Rover trademark from BMW, who previously licensed its use to MG Rover Group

Under the administration of Alan Mulally, Ford gradually divested its stake in Mazda from 2008 to 2010, with Ford currently holding 3 % of Mazda stock and severing production as well as development ties.

For instance, Mazda's Familia platform was used for Ford models like the Laser and Escort, while the Capella architecture found its way into Ford's Telstar sedan and Probe sports models.

) Ford has also lent Mazda some of its capacity when needed: the Mazda 121 sold in Europe and South Africa was, for a time, a variant of the Ford Fiesta built in plants in Europe and South Africa.

She then telephoned Eileen Ford and told her that she would join the Ford agency if they also signed her 15-year-old her sister, Suzy Parker, sight-unseen.

The artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown were among O ' Shaughnessy's circle of friends, and in 1873 he married Eleanor Marston, the daughter of author John Westland Marston and sister of the poet Philip Bourke Marston.

Mary Ford was born Iris Colleen Summers in El Monte, California, the second daughter of Marshall McKinley Summers ( born February 13, 1896 in Ridgway, Illinois ; died August 5, 1981 in Los Angeles, California ), a Nazarene minister, who later became a painting contractor, and his wife, Dorothy May White Summers ( born April 5, 1897 in Missouri ; died February 22, 1988 in South El Monte, California ), and was the sister of Byron Fletcher Summers ( born December 25, 1918 in Missouri ; died April 2, 1994 ), Esther Eva Summers Wootten ( born 1922 in Los Angeles, California ), and Bruce Wendell Summers ( born February 22, 1929 in California ; died November 15, 2007 ).

Despite an economic recession that cut into new car sales industrywide, and especially affected the medium-priced car market that Olds competed in, Oldsmobile saw only a slight decline in sales for 1958 and even rose in industry standings to fourth-place behind the " Low-Priced Three " of Chevrolet, Ford and Plymouth, while surpassing a now-floundering sister division Buick on the sales charts for the first time in many years.

Oldsmobile was also way ahead of other middle-priced competitors such as sister division Pontiac, Mercury, Dodge and Chrysler, along with Ford Motor Company's all-new and ill-fated Edsel, and Chrysler Corporation's DeSoto-the latter two nameplates of which would fade into oblivion within the next three years.

This restyle was shared with its sister car, the Thunderbird, with the two becoming the first examples of the new " aero-look " design, which would eventually spread throughout the Ford line and ultimately the entire industry.

However, by the early 1950s, overhead valve V8s from sister divisions Cadillac, Buick and Oldsmobile, as well as new overhead valve V8s from Ford Motor Company and Chrysler Corporation, made the " Silver Streak " all but obsolete in power, It was a quiet, smooth running engine that served the needs of the 1930s and ' 40s American consumer adequately for power, if not reliability or economy, but by 1954, the engine was decidedly eclipsed not only by competing auto makers, but by General Motors ' own divisions ' products as well.

Soskice's father was the exiled Russian revolutionary journalist David Soskice ; his mother was the granddaughter of artist Ford Madox Brown, niece of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and sister of Ford Madox Ford.

Lay missionary Jean Donovan, Ursuline sister Dorothy Kazel and Maryknoll sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford were beaten, raped and murdered by non-uniformed members of the Salvadoran National Guard on 2 December 1980.

His fourth film, My Sister My Love ( Syskonbädd 1782 ), from 1966, again starred Bibi Andersson and is based on Tis Pity She's a Whore, a 17th century play by John Ford about incest between a brother and his twin sister.

In the films, Connie is portrayed by Talia Shire, the sister of director Francis Ford Coppola.

Unlike its sister car the Austin Westminster, which enjoyed moderate success against the volume-selling Ford and Vauxhall sixes of the time, sales were poor, with just 8, 500 sold.

His late sister, Ruth Atkinson Ford, was a pioneering woman comic book artist who helped create the long-running characters Millie the Model and Patsy Walker.

There was also the Ford EXP, and sister version Mercury LN7, targeting the sports car market, essentially a two-seat hatch with lower roofline which was not as successful as other body styles.

Actress Ruth Ford ( 1911-2009 ) was his sister and only known sibling.

He was survived by his elder sister, actress Ruth Ford, who died in 2009, aged 98.

" It was later revealed that Peter will find out from his sister Tracy Barlow ( Kate Ford ) that Leanne is sleeping with Nick.

The show was opened instead with sets from British rock ' n ' rollers The Houseshakers, Joe Brown, Emile Ford & The Checkmates, Screaming Lord Sutch, Heinz, and Billy Fury ; as well as songs from Jerry Lee Lewis's sister Linda Gail Lewis.

In January of 1882, Robert Ford and Dick Liddil surrendered to Sheriff James Timberlake at their sister Martha Bolton's residence in Ray County and were soon brought into a meeting with Crittenden for being in the presence of Jesse James ' cousin Wood Hite the day Hite was murdered.