The seller of today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe XR4Ti describes it being "as new." Considering that the cars didn't do so well when new, maybe that's damning it with faint praise, and maybe that makes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 1980s, Ford of Europe head Bob Lutz thought his company's rear-wheel drive Sierra could be a credible alternative to the yuppie-favorite BMW 3-Series. Marketed properly, Lutz figured that the ...

Merkurs are some of our favorite cars. Flickr pool member sncollins has a nice ’88 XR4Ti he’s been wheeling around for the last 20,000 miles or so. Powered by the tough-as-nails 2.3 liter turbocharged ...