Rare sierras

[Bren]

About 10 years ago I has a Sierra xr4i - not the three door bi plane type, but a 5 door with the i4 twin cam engine. It was a limited edition model, mine was a 1990 g plate.

 

I cannot recall ever seeing another. A bit like the old 2.0 is , I cannot remember when I last saw one, I must have been at school.

 

It is a possibility that there are none left.

[Split_Pin]

I totally forgot about these. I see a languishing D reg xr4x4 from the train each day however. These I do remember.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

There are still a few 2.0 4x4's knocking about, you see em on the bay now and then. I'd love one. Do they drive any differently to the 2wd version?

[DVee8]

The 2.0is that i had was the biggest piece of shit that i had the misfortune to own.

[Junkman]

Around the millennium mark, I had an ex-Dublin cab 1988 Sapphire with a 1.6 OHC, carb, and 5-speed box.

Not a bodge job, it had 1.6 badges, paperwork, and all.

To this day, I have no explanation how this configuration was possible. Fleet order perhaps?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

What's odd about that???

[Junkman]

Post facelift, it should have been a 1.8 OHC, and the 1.6 available pre-facelift only came with a 4-speed.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

They sold 1.6 ohc's right up to the very end

[trigger]

That was a pretty normal set up, my old E reg Sierra 1.6 GL was a 5 speed.

 

[Hendry]

I remember once seeing a J plate Sierra "Laser" model, this was the one and only time I've ever seen one, every other Sierra you saw all the different trims loads of times, I even saw loads more Cossies than I did this.

[trigger]

This is the Ford page for the XR4i from 1990.

 

[trigger]

This was a Laser, I think it was basically a povo spec but with a sunroof.

 

[Junkman]

They sold 1.6 ohc's right up to the very end

 

Must be a UK market thing then. Over beyond you couldn't get the 1.6 after the facelift, and nothing carburetted after 1989 because of no cat.

[Felly Magic]

I remember driving a Sierra sappy 1.6 Classic on a G plate, base model with no sunroof, all it had was a 5 speed box and radio cassette

[CortinaDave]

Aye the CAT rules only came into force here in 1992, they were selling 1.6 5 speed pintos right up until production end - using up the stash of parts on the "azura" spec.

 

 

back in 1998 I had a Sierra 1.3 base with a pinto OHC and dangly mirrors. No grey grille though . Good god was that a slow car, cant be many of those left. B634BGA

[HMC]

Makes me miss the ex wuvvum/robt/brookjm/garycox ghia auto estate. Rare given auto/ factory aircon installation. Where are you now H97OWC?

[CortinaDave]

Still "unlicensed" say DVLA, which is not great.

[trigger]

Makes me miss the ex wuvvum/robt/brookjm/garycox ghia auto estate. Rare given auto/ factory aircon installation. Where are you now H97OWC?

 

Still not taxed. It's fate doesn't sound very good.

[oldford]

The humble 1.8 LX is rarer than a Cosworth.  A 1.6 Pinto 5 speed on a carb, I drove hundreds of them in 1988/1999, so not a wierd factory combination at all, I think that the last of the line 1.6 CVH is quite rare.

[Guest bangerfan101]

the very early mk1 with the 1.3 pinto . a very rare beast indeed , f2 stockcar lads will pay a small fortune for the diff out of one of these too

[EssDeeWon]

In the 90s my step-granddad had a black mk1 2.0i GLS DOHC on a D plate. I rather liked the mk2 GLS but didn't see many other mk1 GLS Sierra's back then (Off to Google Images)

 

 

Here is the 1986 Sierra 2.0i GLS which I cannot remember seeing many of.

 

 

But I actually really liked these at one time

 

 

 

 

[Lankytim]

Wouldn't a 4x4 XR4i be an XR4x4? Not that rare, well never used to be.

[cort16]

I'm sure they did a rear wheel drive twin cam xr4i that was a reasonably low spec affair. It was one above the LX and had just a slightly sportier interior and rear spoiler.

I remember one being at a local shite auction years ago and being impressed at how low rent it was.

[fordperv]

LT The mk2 xr4i wasn't 4wd it was just a 2.0 twincam rwd they also did a 2.0 twincam xr4x4 there were quite a few about

 

Oh and trig some Sierra lasers came so pov spec they didn't even have a sunroof

[chaseracer]

Aye the CAT rules only came into force here in 1992, they were selling 1.6 5 speed pintos right up until production end - using up the stash of parts on the "azura" spec...

 

Can we all agree never EVER to mention the Sierra Azura again?  The very thought of the POS Domestic Management had still makes me twitch twenty years later...

 

 

[CortinaDave]

the very early mk1 with the 1.3 pinto . a very rare beast indeed , f2 stockcar lads will pay a small fortune for the diff out of one of these too

I sold it for scrap as it was like trying to sell a cockroach infestation. Not a single call despite me asking £150 with 5 months test left. Got £60 for it in the end. Incredibly someone bought it out of the yard and it lived another year or so.

[fordperv]

I sold it for scrap as it was like trying to sell a cockroach infestation. Not a single call despite me asking £150 with 5 months test left. Got £60 for it in the end. Incredibly someone bought it out of the yard and it lived another year or so.

I would take your arm off for a 1.3 Sierra base I need that kind of misery in my life

[oman5]

I had a J plate 1.6 LX with a 5 speed and a carb. definitely carb, it was some shitbox  weber lash up and didn't run properly the whole time I owned it.

[hairymel]

 

best wheel trims ever

[lisbon_road]

I still own this, Mk1, i4 engine, new bodyshell.