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- From: tedebear@leland.Stanford.EDU (Theodore Chen)
- Subject: Re: Merkur XR4Ti
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.013118.15106@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <masc5n9@Unify.Com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 01:31:18 GMT
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- In article <masc5n9@Unify.Com> perry@Unify.Com (Perry Clarke) writes:
- >Does anyone know if a turbo version of the Ford Sierra XR4i (which, with
- >1457 engineering changes :-) is what a Merkur is) was ever sold in Germany?
- >I am almost certain that the UK version never had a turbo (or a 4 cylinder
- >2.3 litre engine, for that matter).
-
- sure there were turbo versions.
- the ford sierra cosworths, in various iterations, all had turbos.
- they were 2.0 liter, 16 valve cosworth engines, not the pinto-derived
- 2.3 liter that we have here. they even had an AWD version of the
- sierra cosworth.
- -teddy
-