2000 Mercury Cougar Unknown

Free Warranty! Free CarFax! Free Lifetime NYS Inspection! 100% Credit Approval! Mercury's Cougar combines edgy styling with sporty handling and an available V6 engine. The 1967 Cougar combined style and performance, and Mercury says it tried to achieve that same balance when designing this newest generation model with front-wheel drive. With its catlike headlamps and sweeping lines, the Cougar looks like nothing else on the road. This coupe features smooth, sculpted surfaces defined by clean folds and sharp intersections. Parts of this car looks like it was sculpted with a sharp knife, while the rear fender is rounded, and reminiscent of the Lexus SC. This car offers some nice exterior details: Small triangles show the location for the jacking points. Side markers act as turn signals to alert drivers next door. Cougar looks ready for high speeds and winding roads. Part of the reason for this is its relatively long wheelbase with European-style short overhangs. Cougar offers surprisingly good handling and solid stability at speed as I discovered at Road Atlanta, a gutsy high-speed road-racing circuit in north Georgia. Nowhere was this more noticeable than at the entrance to Turn 2, a relatively slow technical spot in terms of chassis dynamics. The turn-in point for this right-hand corner is at the top of a hill and is immediately preceded by a quick left. I crested the hill topped out in third gear. Because the car is cresting the hill, the suspension is unloaded and there is little weight on the tires - a difficult place for smooth braking. But fairly hard braking is required to slow the car and it's easy to brake too late and shoot past the turn-in point. Braking and turning at the same time is always a challenge and it's very tricky with the suspension unloaded. It's easy to spin the car in this situation.