you need to look further a little further down the fast Ford food chain. Like its Fiesta and Escort compatriots, the somewhat less famous Sierra XR4i does offer what looks like far more enticing ...

Performance Fords have recently been given the magical superpower to defy the rules of deprecation, to the extent that this week’s Pill is a Sierra XR4i that is being offered for slightly more ...

No car drove that point home harder than the 1985-1989 Merkur XR4Ti, the Americanized Ford Sierra XR4i. The Merkur was Ford's attempt at bringing some of its successful European offerings to the U ...

This 1984 Ford Sierra XR4I, with 75,821 miles on the clock, comes with its original manuals and handbooks. This car comes with a 2.8-litre Cologne V6 engine with Bosch K-Jetronic mechanical ...

That, in a nutshell, is the Merkur XR4Ti, Ford ... was a sporty XR4i, powered by the 2.8-liter Cologne V6; but most Sierras were the humble five-door, four-cylinder 1.6L. The Sierra’s claims ...

Now, for the very first time the names are combined on a motorcar, the Ford Sierra RS Cosworth. The basic bodyshell is that of the Sierra XR4i (your Merkur XR4Ti), which has been in production for ...

Radio 4, fish and chips, and rainy bank holidays – and back in 1982, you could add the Ford ... XR4i, followed by the capable four-wheel-drive XR4x4, and finally the marvellous 204bhp Sierra ...

Over in Europe, the base Ford Sierra, produced from 1982-1993, took over from the aging Cortina, but was short on firepower. It was, however, rear-wheel drive, and aerodynamic, and the XR4i ...

Over the years, Ford has unsurprisingly ... And that was the end of that. The Sierra Cosworth is just as beloved today as it was in the mid-Eighties. However, the earlier XR4i flopped due to ...

It would be good for Ford’s racing ambitions and, with a run of 5000 road-going Cosworths for Group A homologation, good for the Sierra ... a prototype based on an XR4i bodyshell with the ...