1999 Mercury Cougar V6 from North America
Summary:
Makes an alright first car
Faults:
The cup holder tends to throw drinks onto your lap...
The worst design for a cup holder I have ever seen.
If I keep it under a half a tank of gas I run the risk of it not starting... lower than half a tank is a huge gamble.
Eats up gas like there is no tomorrow.
My right speaker tends to buzz.
Most of the warning lights have ALWAYS been on, since I bought it i.e. The coolant light, and the maintenance light.
Operation VARIES in different weather conditions extremely.
Eats up tires and brake pads.
The 6 cd trunk CD changer it originally came with has horid and ate my cds for very long time.
Transmission has recently become jumpy.
There are censors that need to be replaced.. I do not remember which ones.
General Comments:
I enjoy the look of the car, and the highway speed. But, there are a lot of faults... when the car was first purchased it was a dream come true.. but more recently it has petered out a bit.
Makes a great first car, is pretty reliable and pretty fast.
Does not handle well though, and is like a boat especially in urban areas.
Aside from the speaker buzzing the stock speakers have been pretty good to me and I am sure I abuse them.
I tried to pamper this car.. but all in all this car performance is moderate.
I did very much enjoy the speed before the transmission started feeling sketchy, now I have to gradually get to speeds instead of how fast it was before.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? No
Review Date: 8th November, 2007
23rd Oct 2007, 11:05
I think you got some things mixed up here. This is not American engineering. In fact the Mondeo / Contour / Cougar lines were engineered in Europe, I believe in Germany. That's why they handle so well. However they were built and assembled in various places around the world, and that is why some are good and others no good at all in the quality and reliability department. There are good American FoMoCo cars out there.