Saving Cougars

dogsbody said:
From someone who claims that the Club offers him nothing....yet another shameless plug for his catering business.
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Not really, just explaining my situation with the car and my life right now. My catering services would not really be any help to 99% of members to this club given my location. And yes I still stand by what I have been saying for a good while now. This club can not offer me any value in paying my subs............. old ground again and something I do not want to bring back up as I have all the answers explained to me in the past. I am happy with everything this club has to offer to non-paying members. It is all good.(y)

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shirtyzeus said:
mmmm carvery:p

ive never seen your car in the flesh and would love to...missed it at combe two years ago ,got there late(n)

it would be a shame if you couldn't get it to the show as im sure it would be a real head turner.
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I will try to come to the hall next year on the Friday or Saturday evening if I have nothing booked.
 
TopCat1127 said:
odds on #001 was surrendered for destructive testing..........
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I think that highly unlikely mate, the hole reason for platform sharing reduces development time as designers can concentrate on the styling of a new model without having to worry about how it will handle or how it will perform in crash testing. I would suspect that the crash tested models would have been the Mk2 mondeo for the uk and Europe tests and the Contour in America
 
Procomm said:
I think that highly unlikely mate, the hole reason for platform sharing reduces development time as designers can concentrate on the styling of a new model without having to worry about how it will handle or how it will perform in crash testing. I would suspect that the crash tested models would have been the Mk2 mondeo for the uk and Europe tests and the Contour in America
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TopCat1127 said:
Only thing that's vaguely similar is the floorpan Paul, so yes they would have had to retest it
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According to Parkers the Cougar wasn't put through a Euro NCAP test:

http://www.parkers.co.uk/ford/cougar/features-safety-and-equipment/
 
Quicksilver said:
In the US, but apparently only for side impacts:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1S956tLZVxY

http://www.carcomplaints.com/Mercury/Cougar/2002/safety/
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Interesting, so the rules for crash testing had not tightened up then when the car was released. I wonder if the C2 had more testing then seen as it came along 3-4 years after the C1.

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Just looked at the information and it was a 2002 car that was crash tested so that answered my own question. Should have click on the links before replying.
 
'My daughter has a 2002 Mercury Cougar and is risking her life as well as others lives every time she gets inside that car.'

Way to slate your daughters driving skills :LOL:
 
F7OUD said:
Interesting, so the rules for crash testing had not tightened up then when the car was released. I wonder if the C2 had more testing then seen as it came along 3-4 years after the C1.

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Just looked at the information and it was a 2002 car that was crash tested so that answered my own question. Should have click on the links before replying.
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The one on the you tube clip is a '99 C1.
 
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