At the dawn of the 1980s, a young go-getter Ford executive named Bob Lutz decided that Ford needed to draw a bead on BMW. Theoretically, he knew what would get the job done, having spent three years ...

Either completely forgotten or ridiculed by the few who still remember it, the Merkur XR4Ti failed because of questionable marketing decisions and not because it was a bad car. Throughout the decades, ...

When it was introduced, today's Nice Price or No Dice Merkur was the wrong car at the wrong time. Now, it's a rare and funky piece of automotive history. Let's see if that and its price tag make it ...

20 Mar 2023, 16:35 UTC · By: Vlad Radu // Though few have ever heard about it in the U.S., the Sierra RS Cosworth is one of the greatest, most influential high-performance cars ever built by Ford 5 ...

How’s this for a bizarre car: an American-designed, German-built, two-door liftback with rear-wheel-drive and a turbocharged 4-cylinder from the 1980s. If you thought all of these qualifiers couldn’t ...

The Merkur XR4Ti was an award-winning, turbocharged home run for Ford in the 1980s—until it landed in U.S. dealerships with a thud. How could this have happened? As the latest episode of Revelations ...

The XR4Ti got a non-intercooled version of the turbocharged "Pinto 2300" straight-four that powered the SVO Mustang. In 1987, five-speed XR4Tis had 170 hp and the automatics got lower boost and just ...