Having lustful Cougar feelings

[purplebargeken]

I know I don't need another car. I know I have the Amazon, TRoledo project and soon the 1500FWD, but I do have wantage thoughts for a Cougar. Will 500 quid do it for me? Anything to not like about them apart from the hot iron mark on the bonnet.

 

Ben, I would love the Merc but she is out of my range buddy. 

[purplebargeken]

There is this: 

 

171532046510

 

Road tax is £230, just checking out insurance shortly.

[purplebargeken]

Belts or chains on these?

[oldcars]

at the reg, once a month it will be a bastard to live with 

[andy18s]

Pay special attention to the lower front wishbones as these are a Ford only part and shared with the Mongdayo ST.

ABS pump is a killer on these as the are made of stupidpriceium

Alternators are a pain but doable to change

Rear subframe and sill rears are the rot spots

[Partridge]

When I read the title I thought you were going to tell us all you had a fetish for shagging middle aged women with too much make up.

 

But as for the cars I understand that. I've always liked them, and they use the Mondeo platform so they can probably go round corners OK.

[purplebargeken]

I knew it would likely be you re: the cougar comment lol+++.

 

Ok, not the end of the world then. I gather the duratec engines are pretty solid. Plastic impeller blade?

[Partridge]

Well it's better than shagging Fords (or actual wildcats, you'd probably get your bellend bitten off and I don't think the RSPCA would take very kindly to it.)

 

I know HT leads can play up merry hell on Duratecs but other than that I'm not sure...Will you be the first Cougar owner on Autoshite then?

[purplebargeken]

Just phoned for a quote. 750 quid lol+++++++++++. No chance there then. High risk area? Hmm. 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Well it's better than shagging Fords (or actual wildcats, you'd probably get your bellend bitten off and I don't think the RSPCA would take very kindly to it.)

 

I know HT leads can play up merry hell on Duratecs but other than that I'm not sure...Will you be the first Cougar owner on Autoshite then?

Wasn't there someone who,about a year ago, couldn't give one away?

[alf892]

Pete M had one and loved it.........looked nice and he fixed the small bit of rot it had but as you say no takers when it came to selling

[John F]

One of the Northern Shiters (can't remember who) brought a Cougar to the Cumbria meet a couple of years ago, he'd retrimmed the driver's seat hiumself & made quite a good job of it.

 

I've driven a V6 Cougar, it was the same as driving a V6 Calibra in pretty much all respects. Not a bad thing IMO. The interior is a bit plasticky.

 

Cougars will undoubtedly be worth silly money one day when the OSF tax kicks in ('yo'), so you'll probably not lose any money on it if you keep it long enough.

[HMC]

Try and avoid ones with a sunroof as they can be a world of pain according to a cougar owning friend

[Pete-M]

Yup. Avoid the sunroof ones.

 

I sold my old one to a friend who really likes it. He has re-padded the front seats and done a few very minor service jobs to it. He gets 31-33 mpg commuting from Warrington to Liverpool and it still sounds very sweet indeed. He reckons the engine is smoother than any of the BMW six pots he's owned. It is very very quiet indeed. Quieter than the closely related one in my X type.

 

They're not easy to sell. My local scrapyard refused it - "Don't want it Pete, we've had a couple and nobody wants the bits. Things just sit there for a year and then go through the fragger".

 

I'd have run it for a bit longer but for personal reasons I really didn't want to keep it. Nothing to do with the car itself, just an unpleasant memory associated with it.

[babydriver]

^{If insurance is a problem how about a puma, they look like as much fun.}

[Taff]

When I read the title I thought you were going to tell us all you had a fetish for shagging middle women with too much make up.

 

But as for the cars I understand that. I've always liked them, and they use the Mondeo platform so they can probably go round corners OK.

 

that's what I was hoping for too

[Partridge]

That's what the "list of women we'd like to shag given half a chance" thread is for

[Taff]

That's what the "list of women we'd like to shag given half a chance" thread is for

 

fair one.

 

I'm off to find a cougar on a Cougar picture now. Bound to be one amongst my collection of 375,883 pictures

[danthecapriman]

I've never had one but worked on a few. V6 ones can be a bit of a pig for some jobs.

I don't know why they seem so hard to sell/undesireable as there's loads of far worse cars around than a Couger.

 

However the option of buying one while they are cheap, running it until it gets knackered/bored of it etc then if you can't sell it, I reckon the banger racers would happily have it off you! They seem to be a popular alternative for similar age Mondeos at the moment. Gets rid of it with minimum hassle I suppose if it's not going to be a car to keep long term.

[Pete-M]

Banger boys go for the 2.0, not the V6.

[Cavcraft]

 

There is this: 

 

171532046510

 

Road tax is £230, just checking out insurance shortly.

 

 

 

 

Appropriate reg is appropriate.

 

 

I cannot think of a single, solitary nice thing to say about these cars. Utterly, utterly horrible.

[spike60]

my son had one for a while, quite good for the money. Went well, ok on fuel, shit seats, no engine braking. Did the usual Mondeo stuff with calipers and wheel bearings and the V6 cooks the box of tricks that works the secondary throttles, I soldered a new diode in his and gave it a new kick to its gallop. A lot less pain than a cheap Alfa GTV I'd reckon.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

I'm not sure about these - really fancied one while I was tooling about in my mk1 mondeo

 

From some angles it does look a big ungainly, the puma was always the prettier car but they rust like fuck

 

Was supposed to be a modern Capri wasn't it? Problem was people aspired to beemers and mercs etc when this was released, it was destined for failure due to badge snobbery.

[Honey Badger]

V6 Coupe required but don't want a scabby Ford Moutain cat?

 

http://www.gumtree.com/p/honda/honda-accord-30-coupe/1086504180

 

 

 

 

Might want to invest in some Silver alloy wheel paint mind, and prepair for eventual gearbox implosion.

 

Non chavved up ones look a lot better mind.

 

 

[They_all_do_that_sir]

This black one looks nice

 

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=321573149567

 

When did they get so cheap??

[Cheggers]

 

Appropriate reg is appropriate.

 

 

I cannot think of a single, solitary nice thing to say about these cars. Utterly, utterly horrible.

It's OK, but it's no Calibra

 

Seriously, I'm sure the Cougar is perfectly capable, but there's no shortage of better/ better looking alternatives (Calibra, Accord, 406 Coop etc) for similar money.

[AnthonyG]

The Cougar kind of came out too late for the boom of the 90's coupe market, the earliest was on an 'R'.

 

The Probe really failed to catch on as the 'new Capri' and I don't think Ford really had their heart in it to push the Cougar. They were built in the US and came in with the odd Exploder.

 

Anyone who was in the market for a coupe in the late 90s and didn't want a German beastie tended to go for the Japanese or Pug, Vauxhall had given up on the Calibra by 1998/9 as the sales didn't justify making a replacement out of the Vectra B (just as well).

 

The last nonGerman Koop to sell in respectable numbers was the last gen Celica.

[Pete-M]

Cougar's main problem is that it is FWD.

 

If it had been RWD then there may have been a twitch of interest from the Capri fans who'd forgive it for the cheap American interior if it would do a bit of tail happy fun. The V6 Cougar is a cruiser that handles well, it's smooth,quiet, reasonably nippy and pretty comfortable but it isn't the kind of car you chuck about for fun. It'll do it but it doesn't encourage that kind of driving.

 

It's no different from a Calibra 24v or Honda Accord Coupe in being a bit dull. None are particularly fun to drive, none are particularly nice to sit in, but all will go quite well if they have to. My Cougar strangely reminded me of my old XJ-S 3.6 - that didn't want to hustle either, but was a nice and quiet cruiser.

[Albert Ross]

I hired one to go to a Wedding some years ago, I wanted to keep it. S291 AFE.....  currently sorned. Must have succumbed to the metal worm. Not too comfy, (Weird backrest profile)  but if you keep the urge on, you don't get to relax.