The only thing wrong with the car was the CD player. It was never used at all, until I got the car, after a year of use, the CDs would no longer play or eject consistently. (It only seemed to happen when it was hot more often then in the winter.) Other than that, it worked perfect.
The car handled like a dream, it was great around turns!
It had tons of power, I could floor it and make it ahead of everyone else like I was driving a stick!
The interior was beautiful, comfortable, and it was high quality leather.
The exterior, especially the paint, looked immaculate! There were no little swirls in the paint, like most other cars. (Usually the ones taken to automatic car washes have them.) It was also not white, not off-white, but pearl. I never met a person who didn't like the color.
This car was very special to me. It belonged to my grandmother. When she died, my mom gave the car to me. The first day I got my drivers license, a woman in a Ford Explorer backed into my car's passenger door! While it was in the shop, I got a rent a car. It was a Saturn. After driving the Saturn for a week and a half, I realized just how much I really loved that cougar! After that I was so glad to have it. I have a friend who has a 1999 Cougar, and for a while I thought they looked really cool, and sorta wanted one. That is, until I found out they were pieces of junk! Anyway, I got in a nasty car accident in my cougar, and they totaled it. I was devastated. Now I am in search of another one just like it, because it was such a wonderful car!
Get one with a V8 and then you'll realize how slow that V6 really was.
I am not sure, a supercharged 3.8 is as good as a 4.6L v8. Definitely better then the 5.0.
I was kinda curious. I thought Ford only made supercharged V6 XR-7 cougar for 89 and 90. Is your's a normal 3.8 or a supercharged 3.8.
No supercharged V6 in '96
This "owner" does not even know what size his engine was, thinks it was a 3.4L.
The thunderbirds were the ones to have the blown 3.8 up until 95...cougars only used it up till 91 in the xr7 then the 302 took over.
I own a 96 with 132,000 KM on
I had to Replace the Oil Pan and Lower Right Control Arm
The Relay for the ABS Computer.
Other wise it been Soild I bought car with 128,300 on it.
Pay 3000 CND..
Great Little Car.
I just scrapped my 3.8 v6 Cougar XR7 (96). I thought it was a piece of junk - but I drove the life out of it!
It was my first car, and I bought it after it had been sitting for 13 months. I didn't know to change the fuel system after that, so maybe that's why my fuel injector was always hesitant.
I blew a water pump and a radiator before I realized that the previous owner installed the thermostat backwards (I thought the gauge was broken for the coolant temp.).
I know it had lots of power - I loved that about it. I went through six rear tires in the first few months of owning it, because I thought doing donuts and peeling out were really cool.
I had electric problems with the ECT sensor, and pretty much anything to do with the cooling system.
My cruise control never worked.
The brake calipers are incredibly hard to recompress without draining the brake system and relieving all the pressure.
I ruined my rear suspension (ball joints) because I learned to drift in this car.
A/C got a pinhole leak.
Idle air control valve went out, causing idling to be very rough, and on one occasion the car died on me.
I had to shift to neutral at every light.
Paint corroded in the shape of racing stripes as I've seen so many alike.
Driver's side window never went up straight.
The link between the lock and tumbler to the ignition switch broke, so I rigged the ignition switch up to the frame below the steering wheel, so everyone thought my car was stolen and hot-wired.
The ash-tray cover broke and slid open all the time.
Speakers were lame.
Electric problem causing many similar models back windshield to crack if the defrosters were left on for more than like five minutes; was fixed before I bought the car.
Back right speaker never worked.
The ceiling liner simply fell apart.
And the car ALWAYS needed a tune-up.
I got tired of something else breaking on the car every week so I got rid of it. It also SUUUUCKED gas down...
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