On my way to Auburn, and what do I see?
A Fox-bodied Cougar, on a bridge crossing the Missouri.
In body blue, with doors of four,
such a Cougar you don’t see any more.
Whether the engine is four, six, or eight,
It made this guy truly appreciate.
CC Outtake: 1980 Mercury Cougar – When You Cross a Cat With a Fox
– Posted on November 5, 2014
This is profoundly wrong, it makes a Versailles seem almost right. And the 2.3 four with stick I betcha is a better driver than the V8 auto.
A Cougar sedan? Really?
Truly. This picture doesn’t do the condition of the car justice.
The condition is beyond reproach, but why wasn’t it called a Monarch? I had a Monarch sedan, so I know a Mercury Monarch when I see one. My esteemed peers in high school called it the Puke’ury Nerdzmobile, though. No clue why Oldsmobile was involved, it had more to do with me 😉
Man, FoMoCo was all kinds of messed up back then!
When you cross a cat with a fox, you get a cat box.
Can’t be an ’80, sedans were only offered in ’81 and ’82. With that I’ll bid you adieu.
That is true. In ’80 you could still get the original Granada/Monarch. It was replaced in ’81 with this car.
You thinking of the second generation granada
It reminds me of my buddy’s parent’s 4 door Zephyr. Had the straight six with auto and it sounded like a messed up vacuum cleaner when it accelerated!
I think these would have appealed to an older set, who didn’t want full size anymore, especially in the early eighties economy. It kinda screams retired teacher.
Proof that a fox and a cat do not play well together.
What do you get when you cross a fox and a cat? A dog.
looks like the driver noticed you were taking a picture of his car.
it happens to me when i took a picture of an early ’90s Riviera on I-75 near Flint, and the young boy gave me a thumb up to me ( when i was driving a ’94 Mark VIII. you dont really see personal luxury cars cruising on interstate that often anymore )
Jason:
I may be wrong, but the Cougar is one of the few Ford Motor Company cars to come as a sporty coupe, 2 door sedan, 4 door sedan, station wagon, convertible, and hatchback….AND with FWD AND RWD. The only “features” Cougar hasn’t had is diesel power and AWD.
And it missed AWD by that much…
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j108/cougarman1/MN12AWDmid.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j108/cougarman1/MN12AWDfront.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j108/cougarman1/MN12AWDrear.jpg
Preproduction test mule pics, Note the Cougar’s laser stripe taillights
That is very true. A friend of my mother had an ’82 Cougar wagon. At age ten, it had me scratching my head.
They may have considered a Cougar badged upscale Bronco II, the Mercury dealers had to be hollering for a piece of that pie. The XR7 package would have been a reach, even for Ford.
The Mistang e of 2021 is coming to haunt this comment from 2014.
This car did redeem itself by morphing into the 1983-86 Marquis. The fox Marquis was a better interpretation of what was possible with the fox platform, and it was quite a good car for its time.
I only wish that my 1984 Brougham was the Canada-only LTS, with the 5.0 V8.
Is there even a single Marquis LTS in existence anymore? Now there is a curbside classic that Tom Klockau needs to profile for us!!!!
Four doors. Yuk.
So back in 1999 you could walk out to your brand new sleek Euro-looking, Celica-rivaling Cougar coupe, and find a clapped-out 82 faded-fake-wood-paneled Cougar wagon parked next to it.
In case you wondered why the effort to exhume Cougar that one last time didn’t get very far, even though the car wasn’t half bad.
I had an ’80 Fox-body coupe(silvery-grey, with navy blue trim/medium blue cloth)and, absolutely loved that car. It’s the most comfortable, ever, I’ve driven. I’m on the lookout, all the time, for another. The first has been gone a few years.