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Imagined Ford Contour ST Looks Like a Fusion Sport Bred Out of the S650 Mustang and Accord

Ford Contour ST Accord Mustang CGI mashup by jlord8 19 photos
Photo: jlord8 / Instagram
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The Blue Oval company has so few passenger cars on sale in the United States that they ended up bundling them with the popular SUVs. However, the S650 Mustang at least stands tall and proud.
Available from almost $31k, the seventh-generation pony can be had in coupe or Convertible form, as well as with EcoBoost or Coyote V8 power. But that's just the story's start, as the EcoBoost, GT, and Dark Horse (Premium or not), plus the Fastback or Convertible body styles, are only the introductory chapters. Instead, the Performance section of the online portal also has its fair share of Mustangs.

So, alongside the Edge ST, Explorer ST, 2023 Mustang Mach 1, Bronco Raptor, F-150 Raptor and Raptor R, or Ford GT MK IV also stand proudly the motorsport-bound Mustang Dark Horse R, Mustang GT3 and GT4, plus the street-legal Mustang GTD supercar. Well, that's quite the roster, right? But they're all with two doors instead of four.

Wait, wait a minute – Mustangs have always been a two-door affair. But that's only valid in the real world – whereas the imaginative realm of digital car content creators has always had other plans. And there is no need to take our word for granted, as we have an eloquent example. Here's Jim, the virtual artist tucked behind the jlord8 moniker on social media, who continues to pendulate between resurrecting departed nameplates and fiddling with old-school car CGI.

This pixel master is passionate about GM and Ford – he even owns a 1986 Buick Regal T-type and a 1995 Ford Thunderbird SC – so it is no wonder that much of his work reflects that. For example, he recently created a Chevy Impala SS Coupe muscle car and also a Ford Thunderbird Super Coupe supercar. But now he's fiddling with Japanese ideas, too, like a mashup of the Buick GNX with the R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R.

And he is also thinking about modern stuff that could be produced today – such as a Ford four-door sedan based on the latest Honda Accord sedan! Yep, he's genuinely gone berserk, at least for a CGI moment when he envisioned the revival of the Ford Contour nameplate (a rebadged Ford Mondeo) in ST form with the visage of the S650 Ford Mustang and the rest of the body lines of the eleventh generation JDM-style sedan.

Naturally, the comments section got hit with heated action – with most agreeing to disagree if the Honda Accord was copied after older Ford sedan designs like the Taurus or if the imagined partnership would sound better if the nameplate revival were the Fusion Sport instead of the Contour ST. Oddly enough, the most striking detail is the author's comment – "Putting Mustang clips onto a Honda Accord. Crazy how easy it was to line this up."


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Editor's note: Gallery includes official images of S650 Ford Mustang and Honda Accord.

About the author: Aurel Niculescu
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Aurel has aimed high all his life (literally, at 16 he was flying gliders all by himself) so in 2006 he switched careers and got hired as a writer at his favorite magazine. Since then, his work has been published both by print and online outlets, most recently right here, on autoevolution.
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