Looking like it was just dipped in black, this pristine exterior paint shows very little wear or faults. In fact, in 1987/88 there was a complete redesign, and it was definitely all for the better. Breech asked the Club's permission to name the new model after the Club and the club consented to the use of the name.įor consignment we offer this nearly perfect, very low mileage (a mere 9,512 original miles) car that is from a good year of the Thunderbird design. Ernest Breech, a Thunderbird Country Club member, who was then chairman of Ford Motor Company was supposedly deeply involved in the creation of the Thunderbird. Thunderbird Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California also lays claim to being the inspiration for the name of the car. It is considered a supernatural bird of power and strength. The word "thunderbird" is a reference to a legendary creature for North American indigenous people. A Ford stylist who had lived in the southwest submitted the Thunderbird name. Unfortunately, it wasn't.The name was not among the thousands proposed, including rejected options such as Apache (the original name of the P-51 Mustang), Falcon (owned by Chrysler at the time), Eagle, Tropicale, Hawaiian, and Thunderbolt. It could have been Ford's answer to the Buick GNX. That's too bad, because it could have been a great luxury sports coupe. 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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