Eric Dahlquist wrote this August 1968Motor Trendroad test as if he'd been watching too manyBatmanepisodes: "You mash the accelerator pedal and the Merc leaps away from the mark like you had backed ...

When it comes to drag races between classic muscle cars, we see a lot of iconic vehicles hitting the drag strip nowadays. But we rarely see Mercury models going against each other. Well, here's one of ...

One of the more short-lived muscle car entries of the classic American era was the Mercury Cyclone. Vastly overshadowed by the smaller Mercury Cougar pony car, it was also squished by the ...

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 abilities, ...

As far as Ford Motor Company's big-block V8s go, few are as iconic as the Cobra Jet engine. First announced in late 1967 and made available in April 1968, the 428 Cobra Jet was the pinnacle of Ford's ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

Once planned by Ford Motor Co. as a compact model in the Edsel line, the new Comet was introduced instead as the Mercury version of the Ford Falcon economy car. By 1966, however, the Comet had moved ...