The 1989-1997 Mercury Cougar wasn’t a bad car…just a bland one. Ford was so focused on front-wheel drive midsize cars that the simply ignored the Cougar and it’s Ford Thunderbird sibling and let them wither on the vine, a sad end to a nameplate that was always a Ford in disguise, be it Mustang, Torino, or Fairmont. It was a car that existed just because nobody had bothered to kill it off yet, and you can find nice examples for dirt-cheap nowadays because nobody really knows what to do with a coupe that large. But let’s say that the front end of the MN-12 Cougar is long gone…then what? Well, you could do what one enterprising individual has done and chop one up into a trike! Using a Chevrolet small-block and an automatic, the trike is Cougar from the quarter-windows back, and all homemade from the seats forward. It’s certainly unique and moves out well enough, but what do you think: is it cool as a trike, or would you rather see a whole Cougar rocking with that kind of idle?
Many years ago when I lived near a busy urban road I saw VW Beetle that had had a similar treatment. The best part was that it was minus a windscreen and its roof must have acted as a giant parachute which would have meant top speed was a fast walking pace. As it was German I was amazed at this stroke of idiocy from the land of Vorsprung Durch Technic and thought it should have taken a one-way trip to the nearest crusher.
As should this Chevy-powered abortion…
This is one way to be an attention whore! Athough its the wrong way.
I try not to revert back to my factory roots and swear unnecessarily but this thing is fucking stupid.
This concept literally NEVER works. Never. The crusher is too good for this abomination