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 ...

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 ...

Ok, we're guilty as charged. Clearly, it's our addiction to horsepower, and love for the macho musclecars of the '60s and '70s that drives much of the content you see in the pages of this magazine. In ...

Everyone’s heard of the Shelby-tuned Mustangs that were winners on the track and feared on the street, but there was another FoMoCo pony car that was built alongside them. For one year only, in 1968, ...

This 1968 Mercury Cougar XR7, a single-family-owned classic in Augusta Green since 1969, is a well-preserved gem with a 302 V8 and automatic transmission, ready for its next enthusiast in Zephyr Cove, ...

Every family has its favorite child — and sometimes, it isn’t the loud one. In 1969, Ford’s golden brood had two stars: the Mustang, born wild, and the Cougar, born refined. Today, one of those rare ...

This 1997 Mercury Cougar XR7, an immaculate all-stock classic with 90,000 miles, offers a unique opportunity for enthusiasts to restore a sunroof-equipped coupe despite its transmission issue.