But this isn’t Germany! Just sell them as Mercury Sierras. I loved this car in the ‘80s (when I couldn’t afford one) and it pisses me off how hard Ford fucked up with the whole “Merkur” thing

THANK you. I’m convinced this car would’ve done better if they sold it as a Mercury Sierra. But no, Ford’s marketing geniuses decided they needed to waste God knows how many millions of dollars setting up a new “Merkur” brand that just confused and annoyed Americans. 

Not just difficult for Midwesterners, no American could wrap their tongue around “Merkur.” And slapping XR4Ti on as a model name just made it worse.

My mom also had an ‘86 New Yorker and can confirm it was a shit-bucket. Turbo seemed to work OK, but the digital dash did fail and dad hit the roof when the dealer said it was $800 to replace.

1980 Chevrolet Impala “Sport Coupe.” Dad being a frugal man, this thing was a stripper. Cloth seats, AM radio, it did have A/C but literally no other options. Which isn’t itself bad, but it had the 4.3 V8 and 3-speed auto and was dangerously slow. And being a silver GM car of the time the paint started falling off…

You could carry this thing home in the back of that Land Cruiser.

This is new Corvette C8 money for a 12yo Audi. ND for that alone. Plus this guy seems like a jerk. 

This would be a very nice $4K truck. Maybe $5K at most. 

Exactly. $5,990 would maybe get me interested. 

I might go a bit higher, but no way this is worth more than four figures.

If Spielberg puts a Mach-E in the remake I will gouge by eyeballs out with a spoon and set them on fire rather than watch the movie

This is perhaps the most sensible comment I’ve ever come across on this site

I don’t understand the massive ND vote, these cars are comfortable and are built to do hundreds of thousands of miles. 

Buy it, clean it up a bit, drive and enjoy that sweet comfortable GM cruiser ride for a year or two. Flip it for more than this in a few years. NP

Front turn signals aren’t connected? No. This thing is shot-full of electrical gremlins. ND at half the price.

Maybe if it was a V6 manual in a better color it might be worth half this price. But a 4-cylinder auto in THE most boring-assed color ever? ND

And if you’re going to go through the trouble of repainting the thing, why choose the most boring color possible?

The Buick Grand National’s “angular styling and straight six engine?”

Look Debbie Downer, we know it doesn’t have airbags. Just drive sensibly and you’ll be fine. It’s a classic truck-based SUV and a damn fine one. NP

So a VW body on a Jeep chassis with a Buick turbo V-6 but the turbo’s not hooked up and it doesn’t run unless you’re sitting on it pouring starter fluid down the intake? All this for only $5K?