No car drove that point home harder than the 1985-1989 Merkur XR4Ti, the Americanized Ford Sierra XR4i. The Merkur was Ford's attempt at bringing some of its successful European offerings to the U ...

That, in a nutshell, is the Merkur XR4Ti, Ford’s ill-fated attempt to transform the European Sierra into a high-performance BMW rival. The Ford Sierra, launched in September 1982, was not ...

Cars like today's Nice Price or No Dice Merkur XR4Ti were once referred to as "captive imports." Let's see if this rare former Ford can capture your hearts at its asking price. Now, while I agree ...

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 ...

I'm not quite sure we can call today's 1987 Merkur XR4Ti a similar example of badge engineering, as the car from which it was derived was a full-blooded Ford, the European Sierra. FoMoCo's big ...

If you thought all of these qualifiers couldn’t go together when describing a car, the 1985-1989 Merkur XR4Ti would like to have a word with you. With a family of Fords facing off and suite of ...

Examples abound: (1) an Opel Astra sold here as a Saturn Astra, (2) an Opel Omega as a Cadillac Catera, (3) a Teutonic Ford Sierra as a 1985 Merkur XR4Ti. Importing the Ford required more balls ...

Ultimately, Ford's experimental Euro-import brand for the U.S. market was only saved from being its statistically worst brand by a single model year. Merkur's existence had a lot in common with ...

This might be the first Merkur XR4Ti restomod, and it's amazing. Merkur was Ford's effort from 1985 to 1989 to bring European products to the United States as premium offerings. One of these ...

When was the last time you saw a Merkur XR4Ti, let alone one as cool as this? Sold from 1984 to 1989, the XR4Ti was adapted for the U.S. from the European-market Ford Sierra, and this 1987 example ...

Examples abound: (1) an Opel Astra sold here as a Saturn Astra, (2) an Opel Omega as a Cadillac Catera, (3) a Teutonic Ford Sierra as a 1985 Merkur XR4Ti. Importing the Ford required more balls than ...