There’s a little bit of wind noise from the Cougar at highway speeds, but highway speeds for this car are in excess of those black numbers on white backgrounds you often see by the side of the road. At “normal” highway speeds there is essentially no wind noise from the car, but this is a body design that has been massaged for 15 years now, so it should be quiet.

The Cougar is a two-door coupe, which, if you haven’t been paying attention over the past 30 years, is what it has been primarily over that time. There were some flirtations with four doors and a station wagon for a short spell, but the Cougar has been a luxury coupe for most of its life. And it has a decent trunk, which you aren’t always going to find in a coupe.

Cougar has become the vehicle it has become because of its styling. It is a classy personal coupe. Thank God the reverse sloping rear window has gone, replaced by a more normal sloping rear window. That, I think, has made the styling of the Cougar even more conservative.

Rear-seat legroom is surprisingly good in the Cougar. I would have expected it to be much tighter than it was. Had the car stayed on the Mustang platform it would have been tighter. We put two passengers back there for some longish trips with no complaining. We did push the front seats forward a bit, but it wasn’t necessary.

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