A 1989 Ford Scorpio, badged as a Merkur Scorpio for the North American market, found in a Nevada wrecking yard.
Ford's Merkur brand was one of the shortest-lived North American marques of the late 20th century, existing for just the 1985 through 1989 model years and comprising just two models: the XR4Ti and the Scorpio. Of the two, the Scorpio is the hardest to find today; I was excited to discover this '89 in a car graveyard in Carson City, Nevada. Dearborn had brought over some cars from its European operations in decades past, with varying degrees of sales success.
3-liter straight-four from the Thunderbird Turbo Coupe and Mustang Turbo, badged as the Merkur XR4Ti. It went on sale as a 1985 model. For 1988, the Ford Scorpio arrived as the Merkur Scorpio. The engine in the Scorpio was the good old Cologne pushrod V6, in this case a 2.9-liter rated at 144 horsepower and 162 pound-feet. Members of the Cologne family went into everything from Pintos to Mustangs to Rangers in North America over the decades, but had a much wider range of applications in Europe.
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