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I'd love to hear Carroll Shelby's opinion of this engineering exercise. IMO, they'd have better luck with that concept if they first spun off a Cougar variant (I've already seen one such artist's conception - not bad at all). Lincoln/Mercury has had a lot of experience with very eccentric vehicle designs... witness the Lincoln Blackwood. Bottom line - make the Cougar look "different enough" first, then base the wagon on that model.

More likely, this one will be a stillborn design idea. Ford already has the Escape and Freestyle to cover the small, sporty or "crossover" SUV/wagon market. All this proposal will do is piss-off legions of Mustang fans. But then, the Ford Probe *almost* replaced the RWD platform and became the Mustang back in the '80s. This elicits the same response: Blech!