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 ...

Thomas has spent two years working in the auto journalism industry, contributing to a UK-based newspaper and writing for Euronewsweek. A full-time writer and lifelong engineering enthusiast, he now ...

American gearheads often complain that European automakers never send their best vehicles Stateside. There's a good reason for that: Americans usually don't buy them. No car drove that point home ...

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 ...

From the November 1985 Issue of Car and Driver. Some of us have a taste for fine imports. Wines, cheeses, leather wear, movies, shotguns, lovers—there's sometimes a certain saveur built into such ...

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 ...

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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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The 1980s were a time of radical thinking, big hair, big music, big changes in the world, and trying new big ideas. The auto-world was no exception. Around thirty years ago, we were treated to some of ...

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 ...