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Mercury Cougar
The Mercury Cougar was an automobile sold under the Mercury brand of the Ford Motor Company's Lincoln-Mercury Division. The name was first used in 1967 and was carried by a diverse series of cars over the next three decades. As is common with Mercury vehicles, the Cougar shared basic platforms with Ford models. Originally this was the Mustang, but later versions of the Cougar were based on the Thunderbird, and the last was a version of the Contour. The Cougar was important to Mercury's image for many years, and advertising often identified its dealers as being "at the sign of the cat." Glamorous models leading big cats on leashes were a feature of Cougar and Mercury ads.
See Wikicars' comprehensive Mercury_Cougar Review.
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First Generation (1967-1970)
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This page features content from the Wikipedia Mercury Cougar page with these contributors.
External Links
- Classic Mercury Cougar forums
- Mercury Cougar readers' cars and images
- Pictures and some specs of the first Cougars
- Cougar Club of America
- Consumer Guide on the last Cougars
- Cougars Unlimited
- Delmarva Cougar Club
- TeamNECO
- New Edge Cougar Owners (NECO)
- CoolCats 1983–1997 Cougar resource
- Thunderbird/Cougar Club of America
- Super Coupe Club of America, the site for the supercharged 1989–95 Thunderbird SC and 1989–1990 Cougar XR-7
- 1967 Mercury Cougar XR-7
- "Cougars and Kittens" 1967-1973 Mercury Cougar bikini calendar