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Clue is in the title really. Cougar never was and never will be on any "Performance" list anywhere. Not without serious work.
 
Yup, they never built a performance Coug. The concept 3.0L Cougar-S may have made it in there though if they'd have bothered to build it!
 
I agree. It's not a performance ("Pony") car and Ford never intended it to be. If they had, they wouldn't have marketed it as a Mercury.

It's a compact luxury GT. A mile-muncher. The fact that it's a Ford over here just confuses things because we simply don't have that market segment here. Ironically, we have a car we love because Ford screwed up and totally misread their clientelle.

A Ford exec messed up and becuase of that, I have friends that I would never have met. I'm not sure what to say about that.
 
Performance is a big grey area as far as i can see, yes the cougar is out gunned by a lot of cars, BMW, Audi, jags, Mercs even Aston Martin have all got the same kind of look , big two door coupes with long fronts, short backs and 2+2 seating, but what these cars have apart from far more performance is cost, big costs to buy, to run and lets face it on UK roads a bit of a waste of time, all of them are far quicker off the line and top end is mega but you cant use it, the cougar has a good turn of speed, can cruse at the legal limit all day with no problem, is very comfy, well equipped and now a rare sight, so perhaps we should look on it as an everyday performance car, a poor mans Aston Martin perhaps but far easier to live with.
 
dakota1112001 said:
Performance is a big grey area as far as i can see, yes the cougar is out gunned by a lot of cars, BMW, Audi, jags, Mercs even Aston Martin have all got the same kind of look , big two door coupes with long fronts, short backs and 2+2 seating, but what these cars have apart from far more performance is cost, big costs to buy, to run and lets face it on UK roads a bit of a waste of time, all of them are far quicker off the line and top end is mega but you cant use it, the cougar has a good turn of speed, can cruse at the legal limit all day with no problem, is very comfy, well equipped and now a rare sight, so perhaps we should look on it as an everyday performance car, a poor mans Aston Martin perhaps but far easier to live with.
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You sir. I like you, because you get it. Long live the Cougar and all who are owned by one.
 
dakota1112001 said:
Performance is a big grey area as far as i can see, yes the cougar is out gunned by a lot of cars, BMW, Audi, jags, Mercs even Aston Martin have all got the same kind of look , big two door coupes with long fronts, short backs and 2+2 seating, but what these cars have apart from far more performance is cost, big costs to buy, to run and lets face it on UK roads a bit of a waste of time, all of them are far quicker off the line and top end is mega but you cant use it, the cougar has a good turn of speed, can cruse at the legal limit all day with no problem, is very comfy, well equipped and now a rare sight, so perhaps we should look on it as an everyday performance car, a poor mans Aston Martin perhaps but far easier to live with.
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Definately a nominee for post of the month. (y)
 
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