Few things are sadder than a decent car that doesn’t know what it wants to be when it grows up. That, in a nutshell, is the Merkur XR4Ti, Ford’s ill-fated attempt to transform the European Sierra into ...

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Detroit’s traditional V8s were choking under emissions regulations, European automakers were pushing technology and refinement, and buyers were left caught between nostalgia and progress. Ford, like ...

Merkur was a failed experiment as far as sales, but the cars were actually pretty cool. The XR4Ti was a sporty coupe aimed at BMW. This example has the stick shift you want, and just 19K miles. At the ...

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, ...

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 ...

Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe XR4Ti couldn't be any nicer, and seems barely broken in. That condition is reflected in its asking price, which you'll have to decide if it's worth breaking out the ...

The Merkur XR4Ti – Lincoln-Mercury Division’s German sports sedan – has distinguishing aerodynamic looks, impressive performance, great roadability and is almost as unknown as it was when introduced ...

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Historically X marks the spot, however Ford seemed to miss the target with their mid-eighties imports. Today, Nice Price or Crack Pipe wants to know if time has improved the perception of their aim.

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 ...