1999 Mercury Cougar review from North America

The cup holder tends to throw drinks onto your lap...

The worst design for a cup holder I have ever seen.

If I keep it under a half a tank of gas I run the risk of it not starting... lower than half a tank is a huge gamble.

Eats up gas like there is no tomorrow.

My right speaker tends to buzz.

Most of the warning lights have ALWAYS been on, since I bought it i.e. The coolant light, and the maintenance light.

Operation VARIES in different weather conditions extremely.

Eats up tires and brake pads.

The 6 cd trunk CD changer it originally came with has horid and ate my cds for very long time.

Transmission has recently become jumpy.

There are censors that need to be replaced.. I do not remember which ones.

I enjoy the look of the car, and the highway speed. But, there are a lot of faults... when the car was first purchased it was a dream come true.. but more recently it has petered out a bit.

Makes a great first car, is pretty reliable and pretty fast.

Does not handle well though, and is like a boat especially in urban areas.

Aside from the speaker buzzing the stock speakers have been pretty good to me and I am sure I abuse them.

I tried to pamper this car.. but all in all this car performance is moderate.

I did very much enjoy the speed before the transmission started feeling sketchy, now I have to gradually get to speeds instead of how fast it was before.