Ford Reporter

Always there will be some real dedicated fans to supercars that will try to custom their own car in order to look similar to the dreamed supercar. A guy from Spain made a pretty good replica to Audi R8, the car that makes your head turn every time you see it. Since he doen`t have $105.000 to spent on a real R8, he made a light body kit to fit his Mercury Cougar. This body kit can be buyed for just $50.000, and for this money + the cost to buy a mercury cougar you probably could buy an used R8 and have a real supercar in your garage.

If you look closely you`ll see that the front of the cars are very similar, but the rear are not. There you can see the limitations of the mercury cougar wich is not as wide as the R8, and it misses the dual exhaust tips.

If the cars looks similar we can`t say the same thing about performance and aerodynamics. Clearly the 2.5 Duratec Front Engine can`t compete against the  4.2 liter, 420 horsepower Center Engine, and neither the brakes, the aerodynamics, etc. If we look at the interior clearly R8 is the winner since our guy did nothing to modify the interior of the Cougar.

In the end we can say that this is a pretty good replica of the R8 but we still prefer the original.