The red monster

[drakkie]

A friend wanted to buy a V6 but stepped away from it in the last second because somebody told him that the Cougar was horrendously unreliable. And because the spare parts cost a million Euros.

We still have lots of them around here because there are always some young folks which want to drive a coupe but don't have enough money to afford a BMW or a Merc. And because there aren't that many jap coupes around, Ford coupes (which don't cost that many, even in good condition) are nearly the only choice .

Drakkie, your Puma looks very nice. I don't see one of these in such a good condition very often. You must truely love that car .

I also considered a Cougar before buying this one. It was a little bit too expensive though for me to buy. It should be a daily driver (100km a day) and the fuel-cost would be too much. Not that the Puma is cheap with an average of 1l:12km.. And I don't need the extra space anyway.

We were also looking at the Cougar, but we decided against it because it was too big, too thirsty and tow expensive.

By the way, drakkie, our door panels also fell off. After 3 years and 50.000km.

Jeez that is pretty quick. It's a problem (one of it's many), but someone at the Puma club found a way to fix it forever using the aforementioned Renault parts. Did you get it fixed under warranty?

[Ferrer]

Jeez that is pretty quick. It's a problem (one of it's many), but someone at the Puma club found a way to fix it forever using the aforementioned Renault parts. Did you get it fixed under warranty?

We traded it in for a supercharged Cooper S.

Which was about the same, only better built. And much more expensive.

[LeonOfTheDead]

I was considering buying a Puma, even if Ford's interior aren't my favorite.
Then I remembered about a stupid new law in Italy: during your first 3 years of license you can't drive anything more powerful than 70kW and with a power/weight ratio over 55kW/ton, considering for the weight the kerb weight + 75 kg of driver.
The gf happens to be getting her license now...

Funny thing even a Toyota Yaris 1.0 mk1 is out because it's too light.
I don't know how many times I have to facepalm before I wake up from this nightmare.

[henk4]

there is a discussion going on elsewhere whether the correct italian word for the Alfa Romeo SZ was Il Mostro or Il Monstro...can you shed some light on this?

[LeonOfTheDead]

It's "Il Mostro", no "n" in the middle.

[pimento]

Booyah.

[henk4]

Booyah.

I'll re-edit your post, but can't remember where it was

[pimento]

I'll re-edit your post, but can't remember where it was

Hehe, me either. Somewhere in the nice looking cars thread. First to find it can edit it back...

[imhsar]

Red is very attractive color also it alerts people to keep way from it..... very nice.. Really red monster...

[drakkie]

Red is very attractive color also it alerts people to keep way from it..... very nice.. Really red monster...

Yes indeed. It's also prone to fade, but luckily this one hasn't yet

Attached some pictures of last weekends Puma-tour. In total twelve cars, including a Ford Racing Puma showed up.