If you grew up in Southern California, you know the look: blue-and-gold plates, opera windows glinting in the sun, and just enough chrome to catch a passerby’s eye on Wilshire. This ’79 Mercury Cougar ...

Our experience with CMS Helmets has been very positive. This small Portuguese company offers high-quality helmets like the CMS GP-4 full-face helmet we reviewed some time ago, which was one of the ...

While muscle cars and high-performance engines were still intriguing for buyers in 1970, more and more people were stepping away due to skyrocketing insurance rates. Furthermore, the EPA regulations ...

It's all about the marketing! Yep, the job of any auto manufacturer is to get the customer salivating over its latest car, and preferably a more highly optioned one. For Chevy it might be the Camaro ...

The 1967 Mercury Cougar XR-7 arrived as a calculated answer to a question Detroit had barely started to ask: what if a pony car could feel genuinely upscale without losing its bite. Built on familiar ...

The 1967 Mercury Cougar XR-7 arrived promising a more sophisticated spin on the pony car idea, with extra leather, wood trim, and gadgets meant to distance it from the workhorse Ford Mustang. It ...