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    Like the rude awakenings that often follow love at first sight, the visual fantasy of an automobile doesn’t always square with the physical realities of living with it. Our long-term Mercury Cougar V-6 is a case in point. We were seduced the first time we saw it as the MC2 concept (C/D, September 1997), and we freely admitted we’d been “smitten by its distinctive elegance.” And throughout an extraordinarily long time with us — 18 months–we never tired of its daring good looks. Nor, for that matter, did passersby. Although the Cougar was no longer a novelty when the odometer finally ticked past 40,000 miles, from beginning to end the logbook was full of notes reporting covetous stares, particularly from young women. Darrell Behmer’s radical design is wearing well. This is arguably the coolest ride to wear Mercury badges since the division was established back in 1938, and its CDW27 underpinnings (the Ford Mondeo and Contour and the Mercury Mystique) help to give it a level of agility that’s commensurate with its aggressive good looks.

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