Intersting Mercury Concept/Prototypes April 08, 2009, 04:45:49 PM Some of these show obvious signs of sharing designs with actual production cars. If you look close enough most of them share characteristics of production models. Cougar II is cool. Too much like the Vette though. XR7 and Marauder verts are awesome! Seen the XR7 on Carm's site I think. http://www.wingedmessenger.net/ConceptFuture.htm Quote Selected
Intersting Mercury Concept/Prototypes Reply #1 – April 08, 2009, 04:59:32 PM You know its funny to see these. I remember seeing the Marauder concept when it came out the first time and there wasn't alot of noise about it so it came back out the following year and magazines critisized Ford because it hit the Auto Show circuit and it even had dust covering it. Quote Selected
Intersting Mercury Concept/Prototypes Reply #2 – April 08, 2009, 05:11:50 PM The '55 d-528 is pretty slick looking, and the El Gato is f**kin sweet. Then of course you have the '65 Comet Escapade which looks like a gto and the '70 cyclone spoiler II just reminds me of a Datsun 240. Quote Selected
Intersting Mercury Concept/Prototypes Reply #3 – April 08, 2009, 05:55:27 PM Quoteand the El Gato is f**kin sweet.X2, that is badass Quote Selected
Intersting Mercury Concept/Prototypes Reply #4 – April 08, 2009, 06:00:58 PM The 1980 Anster looks like a rolling pyramid, and I love the mn-12 vert, f*ck I wish I could get ahold of that...... Quote Selected
Intersting Mercury Concept/Prototypes Reply #5 – April 08, 2009, 07:34:16 PM I think that the 1955 Mercury D-528 Prototype Sedan is cool looking. Quote Selected
Intersting Mercury Concept/Prototypes Reply #6 – April 08, 2009, 09:52:19 PM I could of saw mercury putting el gato into production when the 08 challenger came out.... it wouldve fit right into the crowd....... Quote Selected
Intersting Mercury Concept/Prototypes Reply #7 – April 09, 2009, 01:46:47 AM Quote from: 88FoxBird;266477The '55 d-528 is pretty slick looking, and the El Gato is f**kin sweet. Then of course you have the '65 Comet Escapade which looks like a gto and the '70 cyclone spoiler II just reminds me of a Datsun 240.El Gato, awesome.Cyclone II, 240 face, Mopar (Duster) rear, Ford power. I like itThe 79 XM looks alot like the late CaprisMessenger looks like the closest thing to a retro Cougar we might see for a while. 2 seats though.... They did revive the SHO, are we next?Note the CoolCats plug in the 1997 Mercury MC2 and MC4 info. Quote Selected
Intersting Mercury Concept/Prototypes Reply #8 – April 09, 2009, 03:31:02 AM thank god the 88's turned out like they did Quote Selected
Intersting Mercury Concept/Prototypes Reply #9 – April 09, 2009, 07:44:44 AM Quote from: DVP;266521They did revive the SHO, are we next?I'd be willing to bet Mercury would be murdered before we see another Cougar. Quote Selected
Intersting Mercury Concept/Prototypes Reply #10 – April 09, 2009, 11:01:07 AM Quote from: 86XR7project;266545I'd be willing to bet Mercury would be murdered before we see another real Cougar.^FixedLooks like that is what will happen but we can dream. I highly doubt they will have any Fox characteristics, except being slower than the Stang, but still a retro Cougar would be nice. Quote Selected
Intersting Mercury Concept/Prototypes Reply #11 – April 09, 2009, 11:46:31 AM I've said it many times: Ford/Mercury is missing out on a real opportunity here. Mercury should get the S197 platform but with all new, thoroughly modern sheet metal. FoMoCo could kill two birds with one stone: The retro market with the Mustang and the youth market with a modern Mercury platform mate (call it the Cougar or whatever). Maybe even forego the V8 powertrains for Ecoboost and square it off against the Genesis coupe. Even an IRS shouldn't be that hard to do - if Ford could retrofit IRS into the Fox/SN95 chassis I'm sure it could be done on the S197. Quote Selected
Intersting Mercury Concept/Prototypes Reply #12 – April 09, 2009, 12:15:58 PM Quote from: Thunder Chicken;266569I've said it many times: Ford/Mercury is missing out on a real opportunity here. Mercury should get the S197 platform but with all new, thoroughly modern sheet metal. FoMoCo could kill two birds with one stone: The retro market with the Mustang and the youth market with a modern Mercury platform mate (call it the Cougar or whatever). Maybe even forego the V8 powertrains for Ecoboost and square it off against the Genesis coupe. Even an IRS shouldn't be that hard to do - if Ford could retrofit IRS into the Fox/SN95 chassis I'm sure it could be done on the S197.YES! Love the idea. Ecoboost would remove us from the Mustang market in a way, more toward the SHO, but at the same time still different with the door count. That is if they turbo'd us too. IRS would be cool. My fear is the use of S197, rebaged Stang with a Cat on it (Capri...**cough*cough**). Quote Selected
Intersting Mercury Concept/Prototypes Reply #13 – April 09, 2009, 01:59:53 PM I remember most of those concepts from the 60s on. I even built a model of the Cougar II when I was a kid. Christ, I'm old!Holy ! Look on ebay...http://cgi.ebay.com/60s-IMC-Ford-Cougar-II-Adapts-to-Slot-Rcg-1-25-MIB_W0QQitemZ370183611719QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item370183611719&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1462%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50 Quote Selected
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