If you grew up in Southern California, you know the look: blue-and-gold plates, opera windows glinting in the sun, and just enough chrome to catch a passerby’s eye on Wilshire. This ’79 Mercury Cougar ...

Our experience with CMS Helmets has been very positive. This small Portuguese company offers high-quality helmets like the CMS GP-4 full-face helmet we reviewed some time ago, which was one of the ...

Out of the 100,000 pony cars assembled by the Mercury division of Ford Motor Company for 1969, over 90 percent were hardtops. The remaining 9,020 Cougars were convertibles split between the base and ...

The 1967 Mercury Cougar XR-7 arrived as a calculated answer to a question Detroit had barely started to ask: what if a pony car could feel genuinely upscale without losing its bite. Built on familiar ...

During the model's 30-year lifespan nearly 3 million Cougars were produced, but the best ones were churned out between 1967 and 1970. Think of the Cougar as Mercury's luxury version of the iconic ...