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From: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Ford!Europe Muscle Car
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Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 08:37:37 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 18 08:37:37 1985
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In article <1@pb~r.UUCP> peterb@pbear.UUCP writes:
>
>	Folks, A hell of a hot car has hit town from Ford!Europe.
>
>I believe the name is Me-Kur canais (sic, ugh) but I do have to say that
>this thing is a beast in sheeps clothing. First of all this car was designed
>with the Autobahn in mind, so the suspension is firm to stiff with no
>noticable roll and sticky tires. But the wild part is that it has a 2.6 6 in
>it, and cranks out 245 hp. This gives it a top end of about 130-134 mph.
>Ford is retooling it so that it takes a turbo-4 in america, but I think you
>can get it with the six in it though. Check out you ford and mercury dealers
>for the facts/pricing/availability.

In Europe, it's called the Ford Sierra XR4i.  In North America, it
comes *only* with the SVO turbo four, and is called the Merkur XR4Ti.
Considerably more impressive than most of the stuff put out by Ford
North America.
			\tom
			watmath!watdcsu!haapanen