Mercury Cyclone Cobra Jet 428
Along with the compact-sized and Mustang-based Cougar, Mercury offered the Cyclone. It was an intermediate muscle car they built on the Ford Fairlane/Torino platform. Since Mercury was an upscale brand, the Cyclone was better appointed than other comparable products from Ford. But unfortunately, the engine choices and performance were more or less the same.
Mercury introduced the Cyclone in 1964 and it stayed on the market until 1971. But the best version, which is the most interesting to collectors, is the Cyclone CJ. Those two letters marked the presence of the famed 428 Cobra Jet engine. It was the first truly street-muscle worthy engine Ford ever built. With 7.0-liters of displacement and an advertised 335 HP, the Cobra Jet produced over 400 horses in real life.