1967 MERCURY COUGAR: HAND-ME-DOWN CAT

摘要

IT'S EASY TO CRITICIZE FORD Motor Co. for making Mercury cars that were too similar to contemporary Fords, but Mercury often stumbled when it strayed too far from its corporate siblings. In the mid-'50s, for example, an ill-timed attempt to spin off Mercury as a separate division and give it its own body shell became a debacle. By 1961, a weakened but reunited Lincoln-Mercury Division was back on a restricted diet of corporate hand-me-downs and beginning a slow recovery.