In the heady days of the muscle car wars of 1968, luxury cars with performance upgrades tended to get lost in all the horsepower hype. Plymouth was touting its Road Runner with rubber floor mats and a ...

Teiryn has been an avid car fan his entire life. His pride and joy is his daughter Kennedy with his cars coming a close second. He has more than 20 years experience in media and more than a decade of ...

Charles and Lois Powell of Naples, Florida, knew deep down the factory had it right when it built this car. It's a '68 Mercury Cougar XR-7 GT. Besides being the full-house XR-7 and a GT, it's got the ...

This '68 Mercury Cougar XR-7 belongs to Gina and Jack Manchester of East Carlson, Utah. Shortly after marrying in September 1966, the Manchesters saw a brand-new '67 Cougar while visiting Jack's ...

Chad has been a muscle car and classic truck lover since he could walk. The classic vehicles from the '60s and '70s are the best in his eyes, but he is more than willing to give the new technology a ...

Brantley Gilbert was the proud owner of a 1968 Mercury Cougar ... until he needed money to keep his band on the road. He tells Taste of Country how the sale went down -- and how he got his precious ...

The Mercury Cougar was first introduced as a 1967 model on Sept. 30, 1966. The Mercury car line was a “tweener” introduced back in 1939 with the idea of offering upgrade models between the standard ...

According to his brother Win, Eugene Rittall was always a little different. A brilliant man, he worked for a short time after college but then made his living doing small contracting jobs. Win was the ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with former New York Police Department Detective Thomas Jacobellis. In 1983, someone stole his sea-foam-green 1968 Mercury Cougar from his driveway. Thanks to a clumsy criminal ...