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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When it was introduced, today's Nice Price or No Dice Merkur was the wrong car at the wrong time. Now, it's a rare and funky piece of automotive history. Let's see if that and its price tag make it ...

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 decades, ...

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Justin Cupler has been a member of the TopSpeed team since 2012. Justin's love for cars started back when he was just five years old, helping his dad work on his 1957 Chevy Bell Air and then his 1966 ...

I'm all for backyard engineering. It allows you to re-purpose what is otherwise useless to anyone else. That's why this one-of-a-kind twin turbo, SHO V6-powered Merkur XR4Ti needs to be find a home ...

It has been a while since the gates to Project Car Hell last creaked open, so we've decided to turn up the temperature in the Lake of Fire (which we use as a parts-washer in the Hell Garage) and order ...