The Merkur XR4Ti wasn’t the only Ford experiment of the 1980s that leaned on a turbocharged four-cylinder to challenge V8 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

From the March/April 2025 issue of Car and Driver. To our chaotic shores the Big Three have randomly imported Euro-spec cars. Apart from tear gas, little has more reliably induced regret and ...

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 seller of today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Merkur says it's his dream car, but that he has to part with it due to cash issues that are keeping him up at night. Let's see if it seems to be worth ...

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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