1997 Mercury Cougar 30th Anniversary from North America - Comments

Nothing as of yet, my second cougar of this model year... excellent cars, my intake manifold blew up on the 1st one, but put 70k miles on it.

This car is in mint condition, old lady's car, never been driven in the rain, its the white pearl color and is flawless.

I thought all the 30th Anniversary Cougars were a dark red color (?) How did you get a white one?

I own a 1997 30th Anniversary Edition too that is white so they are not all red. I love car, but don't like the costly repair. So far transmission rebuilt, and intake manifold replacement. hate the costly repairs, but love car still.

Oh also wanted to add that I had to replace cv joints on Mercury cougar too. but I guess with having 127,000 miles on it I cannot complain too much. It still runs good and is very dependable when problems are taken care of immediately and not later. so over all id buy another one. and would reccomend this car.

It was originally made in red, but mine is white pearl (or something like that) pearl if you ask me, but are these typically high maintenance? I wasnt expecting any problems for a while... the car is beautiful, I've had so many compliments on it... a cougar doesnt have cv joints, unless it's a newer FWD one. My manifold was checked out last week by the dealer, and is OK.

The 30th Anniversary package for the '97 Cougar included the Toreador Red paint, which was a special color just for that package, so any one that is white or any other color has either been repainted or did not originally come with the Anniversary package.

Since it was just a dress up package anyway (floormats, seat design, insignia, striping) it would not be that hard to duplicate, although it is hard to imagine why anyone would go to the trouble to do so.

I took my car to the mercury dealership last month, they told me and gave me a print out that the 1st 6 months of 97, the red color was used, then after the strike, the production was transferred elsewhere, where they intorodused this iridescent white color and the gold... these two colors are very rare and only 1200 of each color were produced. They are hard to come by, but I assure you, it's 100% authentic, completely flawless, and one of a kind!

We just purchased a 1997 30th Ann. Cougar for $5000.00

It is the opalescent white, 78,000 miles. It is in absolutely mint condition. It is an awesome, beautiful car. We already love it. Do you think we got a good deal?

Thanks.

"...a cougar doesn't have CV joints..."

On the contrary, the person who wrote this comment did not know that Cougars do indeed have CV joints because they have Independent Rear Suspensions... and CV joints are what allow the half-shafts on opposite sides of the differential to exist :)

For 5,000, yeah you got a good deal... i'd pay that for one...

Did you know that the 30th anniversary cougar also came with an accessory kit that you had to request from mercury.

Some of the previous comments state that the 30th anniversary model only came in metallic red. In fact, the first production run only came in red and were all produced in a Ohio plant. When that plant closed down production, a second run of these cars was produced at another plant. The second run cars came in white, white opal, and tan metallic. These last cars were only produced in the last few weeks of production. I ordered my white one three days before they completely stopped taking special orders.

The intake manifold has failed on my 30th Ann. Cougar, again. This time I cannot even get a replacement for 30 days unless I get one from ford. $300 from Autozone and another $200 to install it (a month from now). This car was just poorly designed from the get-go.

CV joints are known for in front wheel drive cars... when talking r.w.d. its half shafts...though they are so puny they could be confused as being something off a transverse engine.

I bought my 30th A Edition new no major problems at all intake manifold is good, no problem with the half shafts. There was a problem with the computer, but it was under warranty and the dealer fixed it no problem I just did not have a car for a few days. Regular maintenance radiator and trany fluid every 2 yrs. and I use synthetic oil and change every 15K.

I have a 30th anniversary Cougar I bought from the original owner. It has the original window sticker and 45,000 miles. It has a sunroof, spoiler, and a ground effects package. The original owner told me that the car is one of three sold in the Carolina's and that is a Rousch Special Edition car. The car is beautiful and draws attention everywhere I take it. How can I find out if this is true and how much the car is worth?