Around the time Ethridge tested the cars, Mercury's Fran Hernandez and Bud Moore were working to build a Cougar Trans-Am race team, a team that would feature drivers Dan Gurney and Parnelli Jones ...

Still, the Cougar team came within two points of winning the 1967 Trans-Am championship, oh-so-close to beating Ford's Mustangs. Some say the narrow victory cost Mercury the chance for a second ...

Aligned with Ford for many years during his racing career, Dan Gurney’s direct ties to Mercury’s Cougar came about when Gurney was appointed to manage Mercury’s Cougar SCCA Trans Am race ...

It is, however, a perfectly harmless term that applies to qualifying a particular vehicle or engine for participation in various racing series with stock classes. Basically, for a stock car to be ...

Essentially a contemporary Ford Mustang in cashmere drag, the first-gen Cougar was the gentleman's muscle bruiser. The upscale ponycar proved popular and found its way into the Trans-Am racing ...

There are 23 reviews for the 2002 Mercury Cougar, click through to see what your fellow consumers are saying.

The Camaro Z28 rose to prominence during the late 1960s, when Chevrolet battled Ford and Mercury in the fiercely competitive SCCA Trans-Am championship. The 1967 season marked the debut of the ...

Mercury hit the fledgling SCCA Trans-Am series hard in Cougar's first year of production, hiring successful NASCAR crew chief Bud Moore to run the show.

News 2020 Mercury Cougar Concept Envisions a Pony Car From an Alternate Timeline In another universe where Mercury still exists, these machines are the stars of this year's Woodward Dream Cruise.

This Competition Yellow 1970 Mercury Cougar Eliminator is getting auctioned off to the highest bidder after having been refurbished in the late 1990s ...

Though the factory-sponsored Team Cougar acquitted itself well in the SCCA Trans-Am Series -- ceding the manufacturer's championship to the Mustang by only two points—the street cars were much ...