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...retract into the engine cowl to allow the driver unobstructed vision. Many G.M. cars have a dashboard light that, when the brakes fail, winks like a slot machine. >Ford has made standard a "seatbelt reminder light" that flashes on when the engine is started. Lincoln-Mercury's new Cougar sports car will not start while the door on the driver's side is open. Cougar and other Ford cars have red markings on the 70 m.p.h. to 120 m.p.h. range of their speedometers to warn drivers that they are going fast. > Chrysler models have small toggle switches instead...
Within the next month, Chrysler's competitors will come out with their own '67s. Two will be completely new cars. One is Lincoln-Mercury's Cougar, a higher priced ($3,200) version of the Mustang. Among Cougar's features will be a steering column that tilts automatically to the right when the driver's door is opened, thus allowing him to slide out more easily. The other new car is Chevrolet's Camaro, a sports car that competes directly with the Mustang in its own price range. Originally called Panther, Camaro is almost...
...Cougar, by Mercury, is a middle-priced cross between the economical Mustang and the expensive Thunderbird. It will have rakish headlights that disappear into the grille, rounded Thunderbird sides, taillights that stretch across the entire back of the car. Price: about...
...brim overflowed three years later when critics called the 18-year-old fashion model turned actress "an adolescent cougar." "If you want anything, just whistle," she said to Bogie in To Have, and there is hardly a man alive over 40 who didn't wish she'd answer his whistle. Bogie married her (she was his fourth and final wife), and for thousands of nostalgic fans she has been Bogie's babe ever since...
When it came to selecting a name for the sports car, Iacocca discarded Cougar and Turino, before settling on Mustang. A holdout until the end was Henry Ford, who wanted to call it the Thunderbird II, to borrow from the Thunderbird's prestige. Ford is not always so tractable, of course, sometimes settles arguments in his favor by simply saying: "Don't forget, my name is on the building." One such case was his insistence, after sitting in a mockup of the Mustang, that the rear-seat leg room be increased an inch. Iacocca and his men complained...