It was not convertible, like the Mustang, not a fastback, or rejected as not wanted a picture with design. The official reason was that quality could be improved. As Zimmerman said: “You screw-in quality with only one body, and the first Mercury Cougar line actually shows above average finish.
But it is also true that the common parts of the Mustang, the LM instrument’s limit of $ 40,000,000, and add a busted convertible, its budget by about 20 percent.
For most tastes more than compensate for the lack of options elsewhere convertible. Originally, there were three engines, all V-8s. (Six were excluded from the higher status of the 1967 Mercury Cougar XR-7 Cars and the prices compared to the Mustang.) Standard is a 289 cubic-inch engine with two-barrel carburetor and 200 horsepower, just a small block, which has proved so popular with buyers Mustang.
Better performance was perhaps the most balanced available ponycar engine all the time, 225-performance four-cylinder version of the carburetor. Raw power you ordered “Marauder GT unit with 390 CID four-barrel carburetor, dual exhaust and 320 hp.
1967 Mercury Cougar XR-7 Cars transmissions come in four flavors: The basic three-speed manual transmission with floor shift, heavy version of the same old standby Merc-O-Matic (now with the Ford Motor Company “Select Shift” interim rate hold function) and a four-to – floor .
Those who ordered the sports Cougar GT performance package. It included 390-8 with a low-restriction dual exhaust, plus a special treatment boosted by strong and rear suspension springs and dampers, larger diameter stabilizer bar, and six-inch-wide wheels wrapped in a large oval white wall tires. You can also get power brakes with disc brakes and quick-ratio (16:01), power steering.
But the best is yet to come. In the mid-model year, escalated the level of luxury with the LM-1967 Mercury Cougar XR7 Cars (the buyer to assume that the letters stood for something “extra fancy”). The seats are standard on all Mercury Cougars, but the teacher was wearing surfaces XR7 Cars. You also got a trick (for its time) overhead console, borrowed from Ford Thunderbird and encapsulation reminders and courtesy lights.
Closing the list of units was a “competitive-type meters that are fully reporting engine running” map pockets, door pull straps, woodgrain steering wheel and dashboard, and the badges on the dashboard and the Cougar XR7 rear roof.
Variations 1967 Mercury Cougar XR7 was Dan Gurney Special, published in the Race Driver successful involvement in terminal race Trans-Am Cougar in an effort to honor. He added: “turbine” wheel covers, chrome engine dress-up kit, and Officer Dan Gurney Signature label.
At a time when the 1968 models were completed, was built in 1967, LM 150 893 bombs, including the 7400 and 27000 GT Cougar XR7. These data were decent, but far from the expectations of Motor Trend took nearly a year ago.
However, the LM was very happy, thank you, because it wanted to sell only about 60,000 GM as a result of new competition and restyled 1967 Plymouth Barracuda. What nobody knew was that a bomb would go down sales for the next five years.
1967 Mercury Cougar XR7 White Picture
For most tastes more than compensate for the lack of options elsewhere convertible. Originally, there were three engines, all V-8s. (Six were excluded from the higher status of the 1967 Mercury Cougar XR-7 Cars and the prices compared to the Mustang.) Standard is a 289 cubic-inch engine with two-barrel carburetor and 200 horsepower, just a small block, which has proved so popular with buyers Mustang.
Better performance was perhaps the most balanced available ponycar engine all the time, 225-performance four-cylinder version of the carburetor. Raw power you ordered “Marauder GT unit with 390 CID four-barrel carburetor, dual exhaust and 320 hp.
1967 Mercury Cougar XR-7 Cars transmissions come in four flavors: The basic three-speed manual transmission with floor shift, heavy version of the same old standby Merc-O-Matic (now with the Ford Motor Company “Select Shift” interim rate hold function) and a four-to – floor .
1967 Mercury Cougar XR7 Green Picture
But the best is yet to come. In the mid-model year, escalated the level of luxury with the LM-1967 Mercury Cougar XR7 Cars (the buyer to assume that the letters stood for something “extra fancy”). The seats are standard on all Mercury Cougars, but the teacher was wearing surfaces XR7 Cars. You also got a trick (for its time) overhead console, borrowed from Ford Thunderbird and encapsulation reminders and courtesy lights.
Closing the list of units was a “competitive-type meters that are fully reporting engine running” map pockets, door pull straps, woodgrain steering wheel and dashboard, and the badges on the dashboard and the Cougar XR7 rear roof.
Variations 1967 Mercury Cougar XR7 was Dan Gurney Special, published in the Race Driver successful involvement in terminal race Trans-Am Cougar in an effort to honor. He added: “turbine” wheel covers, chrome engine dress-up kit, and Officer Dan Gurney Signature label.
At a time when the 1968 models were completed, was built in 1967, LM 150 893 bombs, including the 7400 and 27000 GT Cougar XR7. These data were decent, but far from the expectations of Motor Trend took nearly a year ago.
However, the LM was very happy, thank you, because it wanted to sell only about 60,000 GM as a result of new competition and restyled 1967 Plymouth Barracuda. What nobody knew was that a bomb would go down sales for the next five years.
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