Cougars in crisis
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And so you should Wil lol
I for one will keep mine until i can no longer fix it...........which means its going nowhere for a very long while or god forbid, something catastrophic happens!!!
Theres not a great deal that i cant fix tbh, even if its manufacturing new sills or subframe mounts etc
But this year the target is to bring it back up to scratch as last year or two i've clocked up way too many miles, but now i've got the shed i can concentrate on Goblin.........It will be back better than ever!!!!!
I for one will keep mine until i can no longer fix it...........which means its going nowhere for a very long while or god forbid, something catastrophic happens!!!
Theres not a great deal that i cant fix tbh, even if its manufacturing new sills or subframe mounts etc
But this year the target is to bring it back up to scratch as last year or two i've clocked up way too many miles, but now i've got the shed i can concentrate on Goblin.........It will be back better than ever!!!!!
Nice one!
I've had two tickets overturned since I bought the Cougar and there's no better feeling
Nice one!
I've had two tickets overturned since I bought the Cougar and there's no better feeling
Bearing in mind that I don't hang about and frequently use Tiger to the fullest extent of her abilities, I never, ever get attention from LE. Well, except when at service stations and some copper with a mouthful of donut asks me what model of Jag it is.
Just be gratefull u havent had it called a vauxhall calibra...i wasn't happy��
Ugh. That's when you want to test their stab-vests.
(Kidding Scunny. Just kidding.)
Mind you they're a rare old car now.
The second owner of mine part-exchanged a Calibra for it in 2001!
The second owner of mine part-exchanged a Calibra for it in 2001!
The roofline is similar to the coupe-convertibles, Astra, Megane etc.
Those whose Cougars have been mistaken for Jaguar, have you replaced the Ford ovals with Mercury Cougar badges?
At least Jaguar is a relative, since the Mondeo shared a platform with Jag's saloon; and the Thunderbird (which coupes were the RWD Cougar's twin) roadster shared platform with Jag and Aston Martin GT cars.
Those whose Cougars have been mistaken for Jaguar, have you replaced the Ford ovals with Mercury Cougar badges?
At least Jaguar is a relative, since the Mondeo shared a platform with Jag's saloon; and the Thunderbird (which coupes were the RWD Cougar's twin) roadster shared platform with Jag and Aston Martin GT cars.
I think it just shows by the last few posts most people have no or little idea what a Ford Cougar is and assume that it must be some top manufactures sports car when they see it in the flesh, great I say as it shows that the Cougar still has lines and a shape that people think is a current car.
I think Ford got it just right with this great car and it still cuts the mustard 15 years after it was built, show me a sub £25k car today that can do the same !!
Your so right Wil when you state the Cougar is already a classic, it is and good original examples will in time become sought after of that I am sure.
I think Ford got it just right with this great car and it still cuts the mustard 15 years after it was built, show me a sub £25k car today that can do the same !!
Your so right Wil when you state the Cougar is already a classic, it is and good original examples will in time become sought after of that I am sure.
I was asked by a kid once what it was and I replied 'a Cougar', then his Dad piped up and said 'it's a Ford' . . .
Everyone seems to have missed your question. Yes, Tiger wears no external Ford badges. She wears a cat-face front badge, and a Mercury emblem rear badge (with the words "Mercury Cougar" around the outside of it, which are not legible from a car-length away unless you've got Chuck Yeager's eyesight). I will happily admit that the misdirection is deliberate.
So often the case, definitely! Can't really blame them to be honest. But I'd rather have a Cougar than an X-Type.
I can't add anything more to this other than to say that the Cougar invites one of two responses.
1) If they don't know what it is, they're fascinated. Take them out for a drive, and they're hooked. It's beautiful, capable and versatile.
2) If they're car nuts and do know what it is, they'll hate it. Because it's a MkI facelift (sometimes incorrectly called a MkII) Mondeo and it's fashionable to hate on it.
But some of you will remember that I let a race driver - who knows exactly what a Cougar is - beat Tiger up around MK. He didn't think it was rubbish at all.
The motoring press don't help as they love to take pot shots at the cougar, this month's performance ford had an article on the new mustangs and how we have had to wait for a right hand drive version but we did have the capri till ford axed it, then we got the probe which was not a bad car and then the cougar no sorry just no funky design was not enough to bailout this terrible car! ...what the f... that all about, a mag promoting fords rubbishing one of its products which in no way should be labelled terrible, no it did not sell in the numbers the capri did but was that a better car, no I don't think so , the cougar will be an outsiders choice for some time to come.
I think that the "new edge" style was a downward step from the MK1 Mondeo / last Escort and contemporary Fiesta models and whatever commitee gave it the go-ahead should be shot. But it was a case of slapping a fresh body style on existing models until the replacement platforms (current range, first incarnation) were ready. IMO the ranges that ousted the new edge style, both the E-type nose and the later Aston grill, have much more style.
Even so, the Cougar briefly was the flagship of that range. It may not have had the style of earlier Ford coupes (well there were only [UK] Consul Capri, Capri, Granada coupe and Probe) but it was on a technological par with the other new edge models.
The Consul Capri was the two-door Consul Classic with ... less passenger room.
The Capri was fundamentally a Cortina cross Escort with ... less passenger room.
The Probe (name taken from the experimental prototype Sierra) was ... a Mazda MX7. So this is the only exclusively coupe design. Incidentally these are currently value similar to the Cougar.
And the Cougar was a testbed for the new edge style, on the outgoing Mondeo platform?
Even so, the Cougar briefly was the flagship of that range. It may not have had the style of earlier Ford coupes (well there were only [UK] Consul Capri, Capri, Granada coupe and Probe) but it was on a technological par with the other new edge models.
The Consul Capri was the two-door Consul Classic with ... less passenger room.
The Capri was fundamentally a Cortina cross Escort with ... less passenger room.
The Probe (name taken from the experimental prototype Sierra) was ... a Mazda MX7. So this is the only exclusively coupe design. Incidentally these are currently value similar to the Cougar.
And the Cougar was a testbed for the new edge style, on the outgoing Mondeo platform?
Have to argue there.. Despite the Cougar being touted as 'a spiritual successor' to the Capri, the two are apples and oranges - I say this with about 80k miles in a 2.8 Capri, and about 20k (hard miles) in a Cougar.
The Capri speaks a very different language. It makes you laugh just sat at traffic lights, it's raw, noisy, smells of oil & leather, has only 4 buttons (which you rarely ever use) and is a straight line laugh that delivers it's power in an angry fashion. It's hilarious in corners, but not very effective.
The Cougar is very few of those things and doesn't try to be. It'd hand the Capri it's arse in a cocked hat on a twisty road (my 2 litre Cougar was 4 minutes quicker on a section of twisties than the Capri despite having no real power) is refined, comfortable and sure footed wherever you ask it to go, with smooth power delivery (despite having more BHP on paper than the Capri)
I used to laugh at Cougars as a hardened Capri owner - ala: "******** was that a replacement for the Capri!" especially having left a number of V6 Cougars behind at the old traffic light grand prix (on private airfields, honest...)
Then I broke my diff, and decided to restore the Capri, saw a cougar for £340 and bought it to not care about. I spent about 500 quid, and about 30 hours on bits it didn't need in the first month. Polished it to mirror finish and decided that it deserved it's own place alongside the Capri.
Now that Cougar's are cheap enough to be worth a punt, lots are waking up to how good they are to drive. Values will be up again soon. Same as happened to the Capri, and practically every Ford in history.