None more can be said for the Merkur XR4TI, which debuted in North America in 1985 and was discontinued in 1989. There could be a good reason you don't remember the Merkur XR4TI. Maybe you don't ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...