A great upgrade to safely allow for additional boost and more aggressive. It could have been Ford's answer to the Buick GNX. Perfect fit for getting the most out of your turbocharged Thunderbird Turbo Coupe. That's too bad, because it could have been a great luxury sports coupe. The scoops in the hood are functional and feed fresh. The Turbo Coupe had all the potential for significant performance, but yet it's just not there. ENGINE COMPARTMENT: 2.3L EFI Intercooler turbo charged motor. It felt like a car that was built to meet a safe middle ground on a spec sheet so it wouldn't threaten the Mustang. If you got the automatic, that was reduced to 150 horsepower. It also got a standard five-speed manual transmission and a limited-slip differential to improve performance.īut still, the Thunderbird Turbo Coupe only got 190 horsepower. Multi-port fuel injection, a 2.3-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine, four-wheel disc brakes with ABS, automatic dampening, and automatic headlights.
One of the more interesting ones was the Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe.įor the time, it offered some seriously advanced technology. The Fox-body Mustang gets most of the attention from car enthusiasts these days, but it wasn't the only car Ford built on the Fox platform in the 1980s.
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