I had one through work for a couple of weeks and it really did drive very like a Mondeo but the thing that really pissed me off was the tilt action on the front seats to let folk into the back.

On pretty much every other car you can tilt the seat and when you pop it back it returns to the same position, but the mechanism on the Cougar slides the seat forward as it tilts, and doesn't return to the original setting.

I only had to let folk in and out a handful of times but it drove me nuts!