It could have been Ford's answer to the Buick GNX. For 1988, the basic Thunderbird and the LX came equipped with a 3.8-liter V6. That's too bad, because it could have been a great luxury sports coupe. Turbo Coupe amenities also included articulated sport seats with adjustable headrests, thigh supports and power-adjustable lumbar support, as well as full instrumentation with both a tachometer and (of course) boost gauge. The Turbo Coupe had all the potential for significant performance, but yet it's just not there. 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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