It's 80's Monday, and i'm yet to take part?

"505 - morphine not found" (morphine500) 12/30/2013 at 18:50 • Filed to: 80S

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Alas, it's already Tuesday in my timezone, so i spare you my two well-advertiesed '80s rides, and give you this instead:

Hey. Could be worse......

Still with me? How about this:

505Turbeaux > 505 - morphine not found 12/30/2013 at 18:52

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hold up, dem rectangular headlights were 90-94! Need the roundies to count for 80's!

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > 505 - morphine not found 12/30/2013 at 18:53

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It's tuesday here as well mate. And someone fucked up the front end of that Ford Sierra :P

Kookanoodles > 505 - morphine not found 12/30/2013 at 18:54

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What the hell is going on there ?

505 - morphine not found > 505Turbeaux 12/30/2013 at 19:01

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Nope. According to what i recall, and the wiki says i'm right, they were there all the time - just not on all models. XJ6 came with the two rounds, Sovereign came with these.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Kookanoodles 12/30/2013 at 19:02

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I'm not sure what you tagged there mate, 'cause Kinja.. but that is a Ford Tempo (the ruined version of the Ford Sierra :P)

Kookanoodles > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh 12/30/2013 at 19:03

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I was talking about the super-weird headlight/turn signal arrangement.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Kookanoodles 12/30/2013 at 19:11

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I guessed that much. What happened is that Ford US needed a small(ish) car... so they took the Ford Sierra from Europe

and made the tempo. Not that the Sierra was a looker.. but it was VERY futuristic when it debuted.

Kookanoodles > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh 12/30/2013 at 19:14

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Not surprising since Patrick Le Quément was one of the designers, before he made the original Twingo and the Avantime for Renault. I think the three-door looks ok.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Kookanoodles 12/30/2013 at 19:18

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The three door with the facelift does look quite OK. Did you know that the Sierra was available with a 5.0 V8 in South Africa?

AMC/Renauledge > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh 12/30/2013 at 19:22

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Uh, no. The Ford Sierra was RWD. The Tempo was a transverse FWD car, based on a lengthened Escort platform.

The Sierra and Tempo had nothing to do with each other. The American version of the Ford Sierra was the Merkur XR4Ti:

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > AMC/Renauledge 12/30/2013 at 19:29

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I know the Merkur was a Sierra... But I actually thought the Tempo was based on the Sierra when it came to the design, but I know it was a FWD. I should've known that the Tempo was the start of that horrible ford/mazda thingy. My bad mate :)

The Merkur got a shitty engine though, but it was a cool car :)

AMC/Renauledge > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh 12/30/2013 at 19:39

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The Tempo and Sierra may look similar in some ways (they were designed by the same company in the same era, after all), but they're quite different.

And the Tempo wasn't a collaboration with Mazda, either. It was a lengthened Escort.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > AMC/Renauledge 12/30/2013 at 19:43

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I did not mean to say that the tempo was a collab with mazda :) But you could get it with the Mazda RF diesel right? Never mind :) I made a mistake, I'll admit that :)

Kookanoodles > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh 12/30/2013 at 20:00

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Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Kookanoodles 12/30/2013 at 20:03

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Do a search for Sierra Xr8, they only made 250 of them or so... but they did make them :)