Ford is phasing out production of its Mercury Mystique and Ford Contour cars to build a new compact sport utility that goes on sale later this year.

And Ford's so-called world cars, the Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique, started their life as the European Mondeo.

George's car is a Mercury Mystique.

The results, known elsewhere as the Mondeo, are the Ford Contour and the Mercury Mystique.

The ZX2 shares its 2.0-liter Zetec four-cylinder, dual overhead-cam engine with the larger, more expensive Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique.

What I should drive, he told me, is a Mercury Mystique because they drive like a much more expensive European sedan.

It succeeded the Fox body Mercury Zephyr, and was replaced by the 1995 Mercury Mystique.

Two versions of the Mondeo will be introduced in the United States later this year under different names: Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique.

The new models, the Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique, are crucial for Ford, which spent an astounding $6 billion to develop the design.

The company plans to extend the system from luxury and sports cars to 1998 models of mainstream cars like the Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique.