Mercury's Pinto-based Bobcat was never sold in the US as a two-door sedan with a real trunk — only as a hatchback or wagon, even though Canadian buyers could get the sedan body.
Lead trim: Bobcat
Mercury Bobcat1974–1978
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FactMercury's Pinto-based Bobcat was never sold in the US as a two-door sedan with a real trunk — only as a hatchback or wagon, even though Canadian buyers could get the sedan body.
Lincoln-Mercury dealers introduced a rebadged variant of the Ford Pinto as the Mercury Bobcat for model year 1974, beginning with the Canadian market. Offered in the same body styles as the Pinto, the Bobcat was distinguished by an egg-crate grille and chrome headlamp bezels, with modified double-width tail lamps on the sedan and Runabout models. For 1975 the Bobcat was added to the U.S. market and sold initially in upgraded levels of trim as the Runabout hatchback and Villager wagon, with lesser-trimmed versions in subsequent model years; it was never offered as a two-door sedan with an enclosed trunk in the U.S. market (offered as a two-door sedan for a limited number of years in Canada). All Bobcats were restyled with a raised hood and a taller vertical bar grille, and across all model years offered appearance options similar to the Pinto's. The page gives no Bobcat-specific engine or dimension figures (the Pinto's engines were the 1.6 L Kent, 2.0 L EAO, 2.3 L and 2.8 L Cologne V6). In total 224,026 Bobcats were manufactured from 1975 until 1980.
Collectors Spotted in the Mercury Bobcat Lineage
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Trims & Figures
One published trim in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bobcat | 1974–1978 | — | — | — | — | RWD | — | — |
Owning one
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Owners’ builds
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Photographs
In its final restyling, the Bobcat didn't just borrow the Pinto's new slanted nose and rectangular headlights — Mercury gave it its own oversized vertical-bar grille to set it apart from its Ford twin.
Mercury's Pinto-based Bobcat was never sold in the US as a two-door sedan with a real trunk — only as a hatchback or wagon, even though Canadian buyers could get the sedan body.
Rivals
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