Make a New Mercury Cougar Out of Ford’s Mustang Concept
Here’s an idea, to go along with our rebranding post. Why not bring back one of the most beloved Mercury vehicles of all time, the Cougar, based off a variant of the Ford Mustang Concept. With the success of so many Mustang vehicles (Base model, GT, GT500, etc.) it would be a since to grab attention with a new Mercury Cougar concept. The car, whether it was mass produced or just a 1000-run collectors item, wold bring nothing but positive attention to Mercury – which they could REALLY use right now. What do you think?
Problem is/was that original cougar was more of a personal luxury car based off mustang… unfortunately got shifted to thunderbird platform.
but there was more of a marked difference in the cougar to the mustang in the first gen… good idea to bring back the cougar to it’s roots, but needs to be a different direction and not a warmed over ‘stang. now, the fwd cougar (though you can say blasphemy) was true to the idea.. personal coupe.. however, the cougar fell short on performance unless you had the V6.. and even then (i owned one) the 6 was eh.
That cougar could have gotten away with the Capri badge actually.