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 ...

It's all about the marketing! Yep, the job of any auto manufacturer is to get the customer salivating over its latest car, and preferably a more highly optioned one. For Chevy it might be the Camaro ...

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 ...

The 1967 Mercury Cougar XR-7 arrived promising a more sophisticated spin on the pony car idea, with extra leather, wood trim, and gadgets meant to distance it from the workhorse Ford Mustang. It ...