Today, the Ford Mustang is the automaker’s only mainstream coupe. Mercury is gone as is the Cougar, another FoMoCo two-door, which departed a decade before Ford ultimately shuttered Mercury. If you want a coupe from Ford that doesn’t cost six figures, then the Mustang is your only choice. Abimelec Design decided to give the modern Mustang a Mercury-inspired Cougar sibling, imagining what such a car could look like if it borrowed the Cougar’s retro design cues and applied them to a modern-day sports car.
Abimelec Design prepared several renderings from different angles with different interior and exterior color combinations that show off a range of possibilities from an alternate universe. Nearly all the body panels look unique to the Cougar. There’s a lot of influence from the Cougar’s first and second generations, too. You can see how the first generation inspired the closed-off front end of the renderings, along with the taillight…
