COUGAR video clips of interest

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Just a little bit of history for us... I thought you peeps would like.. :smilewinkgrin:


http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Top-Gear-19981029_548177.htm

This belongs in here aswell if the link will work

http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/1201424/f1_vs_ford_focus_vs_ford_cougar_in_one_race.swf"

Cougar cred............ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie2oRTkE6rI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2EIfGo2cPc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOGrqnU2SmQ

Ford really dropped the ball by not lending one to Top Gear :facepalm:

Anyway, to see the lard in all it's glory (y)


I just stumbled onto this, might be a repost, i don't know. Appx 9.35 mins in:
 
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So it seems the demise of the Cougar was nothing to do with it's high price but was all down to William Hague;
or so Clarkson would have you believe....................................

"There's another reason, though, why it has been such a hit. There wasn't really any competition. Nissan abandoned the 200SX, VW dropped the Corrado, Vauxhall ditched the Calibra, Fiat tucked their coupe away as soon as the man who designed it upped sticks and left for BMW, William Hague bought a Ford Cougar and in doing so gave it the kiss of death as surely as Gareth Cheeseman had done for the Probe, and Honda gave up selling its Prelude to old ladies in Lancashire."

http://www.topgear.com/uk/jeremy-clarkson/clarkson-coupes-2003-03-12

Does anyone else remember the first time the Cougar should of appeared on Top Gear?
Ford pulled the car at the last minute so it couldn't be filmed and it ended up being represented by a big bucket of 'lard' being towed behind something else in the same way Roy Hattersley had been represented by a block of lard when he pulled out of 'Have I got News For You' shortly before.
 
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The immortal Dennis hopper did a advert for cougar!? Omg , that is fricken awesome.
Guy was a legend , spent a stint in an asylum after doing too much acid but bounced back and starred in films like apocalypse now , probably one of the greatest if not thee greatest movies ever.
Rip legend.
 
The immortal Dennis hopper did a advert for cougar!? Omg , that is fricken awesome.
Guy was a legend , spent a stint in an asylum after doing too much acid but bounced back and starred in films like apocalypse now , probably one of the greatest if not thee greatest movies ever.
Rip legend.

Yup the advert is a take on him reliving his youth as the character out of easy rider with the imortal back tune " born to be wild" by Steppenwolf playing in the background.
 

A video of Mastermilo82 (a popular scrap car junkie channel) have a video of a Cougar being stripped down. Interesting to watch, if a little painful. I suppose a car condemned to a scrap heap is putting smiles on peoples faces.

Interestingly, it's a British RHD Cougar. I wonder if we've spotted it?