It’s hard to believe the 1972 Mercury Cougar that 60-year-old Charles Drexler drives today is the same car he had as a ...

Named the Cougar, it quickly grabbed attention due to its nicely balanced and sleek exterior design. Look closer though, ...

For our final entry in Despised Car Week, I’ve chosen a type of vehicle I know a lot of you aren’t fond of: sketchy projects. These both run and drive, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to do on ...

Muscle cars often fall into two neat camps: the bare-bones bruisers that ruled drag strips, and the plush cruisers that leaned more toward boulevard posing. Mercury's Cougar refused to pick a side. It ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

I fear that I'm in the minority for even thinking about the now-defunct entry-level luxury brand Mercury and its cars, but I should not be in the minority when I say that I think the 1999 Mercury ...

The 1967 Mercury Cougar wasn't cheap, especially if you wanted a maxed-out XR-7. The fully optioned configuration could be had for approximately $4,500, stepping into Thunderbird territory and ...

Cats are supposed to have nine lives and the many iterations of Mercury's Cougar prove that cat-named cars can have almost as many. Today's Nice Price or No Dice Cougar is an '80s edition and wears a ...

Since its founding in 1938 by Edsel Ford, the Mercury division has always consisted of rebadged versions of Ford cars, the mid-tier choice between Ford and the brand's Lincoln luxury vehicles. Ford ...

Joe Carter, 63, a real-estate investor living in Moreno Valley, Calif., on his 1970 Mercury Cougar convertible, as told to A.J. Baime. I was raised by a single mom in Hollywood, Calif. We were poor, ...