Murker Reply #15 – June 03, 2007, 01:57:20 PM my dad owns an 85 XR4Ti pretty fun little car needs a clutch now i wonder why lol. and some more things since its been sitting and kids cant leave other peoples things to themselve's and try n destroy everything Quote Selected
Murker Reply #16 – June 04, 2007, 05:36:09 PM Those Tri-bars in black might not look so bad if they had center caps. I didn't know you had an XR4ti as well Chuck. Quote Selected
Murker Reply #17 – June 04, 2007, 07:36:02 PM Quote from: DakotaEpic;151807Those Tri-bars in black might not look so bad if they had center caps. I didn't know you had an XR4ti as well Chuck.I have to get rid of that stupid horsey on the center caps before I'd use them.I don't have the XR4 any more. I sold it last year. Quote Selected
Murker Reply #18 – June 04, 2007, 10:25:53 PM I still think that one of the coolest features of the Scorpio was it's power reclining dual rear seat backs. Those cars were just way ahead of the curve for the average F/L/M buyer to grasp at the time.Brent:cougarsmily: Quote Selected
Murker Reply #19 – June 04, 2007, 11:00:12 PM pr0nounced "Mare-koor" for reference.There is a complete XR4Ti in my local boneyard that isn't wrecked. I assume the turbo went bad. It's a 5-speed car with the sunroof, but it would need some work to get it back on the road. What a shame... Quote Selected
Murker Reply #20 – June 04, 2007, 11:49:47 PM In 1986 my wife and I purchased a new Escort GT. At that time they had new Murkers on the lot and were selling for big discounts, in fact it was less than the Escort GT. But my wife or I did not like the styling. May have been a big mistake but the Escort was a great little car but I sure took a loss on it when I sold it.My wife wanted a red Escort GT and "what women want, women get".The dealers could hardly give those Murkers away.TED Quote Selected
Murker Reply #21 – June 05, 2007, 12:15:37 AM It is Merkur.....The dealers couldn't give them away because they didn't know what to do with them. They should not have been at the L/M dealers...they should have been sold as Fords and gotten proper advertising...then they would have sold. Instead they sold them under a made-up nameplate and dumped them on sales folks who couldn't even pr0nounce the name properly. Hell, they didn't even bother enough to make sure it was said properly in some commercials....if that tells you anything.They were imported, not supported, abandoned, and still folks wonder why they didn't sell. Quote Selected
Murker Reply #22 – June 05, 2007, 12:31:48 AM Quote from: cougarcragar;151924pr0nounced "Mare-koor" for reference.There is a complete XR4Ti in my local boneyard that isn't wrecked. I assume the turbo went bad. It's a 5-speed car with the sunroof, but it would need some work to get it back on the road. What a shame...Do the right thing...My name is John Lewis......and I own an 87 Merkur......it's been like hell since I started working on it but I'm loving every minute of it, and appreciating some of the German design elements, and hating some... Quote Selected
Murker Reply #23 – June 05, 2007, 12:37:17 AM If I only had the space, time and money. Things are just too chaotic in my life right now.It really is a shame, too. The car is complete with all glass, good lights, leather interior, etc.. The management at the junkyard claim they received the car with no information on it. Seeing as how the T3 has massive shaft play, I have to assume that the owner gave up on it and sent it off to the junkyard. Amazing.Again, I would consider saving it if things were actually stable in my life. Quote Selected
Murker Reply #24 – June 05, 2007, 07:53:43 AM I want to say that in the owner manuel there was a warning about the way they handled. Basically telling people that it didn't corner like grandmas LTD. Quote Selected
Murker Reply #25 – June 05, 2007, 08:01:57 AM Quote from: slamedcat;151982I want to say that in the owner manuel there was a warning about the way they handled. Basically telling people that it didn't corner like grandmas LTD.And that was with them undersprung and undertired (stock)..... Quote Selected
Murker Reply #26 – June 05, 2007, 08:14:41 AM There was an XR4Ti for sale at the local Ford dealer in thier 'junk cars' area in the rear corner of the lot about 5 years ago. It was silver, had the basket-weave kinda wheels. Called about it because it had no price and they wanted $1800 and it needed a turbo they'd said. Did they all have FMICs? This one did. I sometimes wonder if I shoulda bought it. Quote Selected
Murker Reply #27 – June 05, 2007, 08:28:00 AM No, none of them came with intercoolers factory. Quote Selected
Murker Reply #28 – June 06, 2007, 11:25:34 AM Isn't the Xr4ti really just a cosworth? You know that ford car across the big lake. Also that one in the junk section at the dealer could have had the Ford motor sports FMIC kit installed or aftermarket. Quote Selected
Murker Reply #29 – June 06, 2007, 11:41:36 AM Quote from: ipsd;152225Isn't the Xr4ti really just a cosworth? You know that ford car across the big lake. Also that one in the junk section at the dealer could have had the Ford motor sports FMIC kit installed or aftermarket.No..the XR4Ti and that racing program spuppiesed the Cosworth Sierra. The Cosworth uses a totally different DOHC 2.0T engine... Quote Selected
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