Hot rodders would adopt the 1949-1951 Mercury as a definitive hot rod type, bestowing the name "lead sled" (also spelled as "led sled"). While the muscle-car movement is commonly associated with ...

The late great comedian Rodney Dangerfield made a long career out of the fact that he never got no respect and if he was a muscle car, he would have been the Mercury Comet Cyclone. Listing off all ...

While the limelight often falls on more celebrated models from competing manufacturers, the Mercury brand (a subsidiary of Ford) quietly produced a lineup of muscle cars that, despite their ...

with muscle machines, elegant styling, and occasional risk-taking dotting its history. Here’s our pick of the eight best Mercury cars ever built. Although always a niche brand in the greater ...

Ford originally launched its Mercury brand in 1938 under the direction of Edsel Ford and Ford Sales Manager Jack Davis. Named for the winged god of commerce in Roman mythology, it was intended to ...

When enthusiasts talk about the most notorious brands associated with the classic muscle cars of the 1960s and 1970s, Mercury rarely pops up. Nevertheless, the now-defunct Ford division rolled out ...

which was the epitome of a muscle car, even though, as it turns out, people quickly forgot about it. We went back to the 1960s stock car world, to explore the origins of the Mercury Cyclone ...

The new Mercury Marauder takes its name from the big Mercury muscle cars of the 1960s, but its true spiritual ancestors are two black Mercury sedans that starred with Jack Lord in the long-running ...

Cougar is actually a pretty storied nameplate for the Mercury brand ... It follows a similar styling pattern as other muscle cars from that area, including its coupe body and long hood, but ...

For Motor Trend's Jan. '67 issue, John Ethridge tested a pair of 1967 Mercury Cougars. One was "equipped strictly for comfortable touring," he wrote, with a 390 V-8, automatic transmission, air ...