87 Merkur XR4Ti by Jordan Henke and the crew of JH Restorations in Windsor, Ontario.

The Merkur XR4Ti is a Ford hot hatch sold in North America from 1985 to 1989, a version of the European Ford Sierra adapted to U.S. regulations

With their own production lines occupied building Sierras for the European market, Ford contracted out assembly of the XR4Ti. Using body panels from Ford's factory in Genk, the cars were largely hand-built by Wilhelm Karmann GmbH in Rheine, Germany. 

Chief executive officer Pete Petersen decided that the car would be sold under the 'Merkur' brand name. The name means 'Mercury' in German, and tied the new brand to the Lincoln-Mercury dealers through which the car would be sold. Initially, 800 Lincoln-Mercury dealers enrolled to also become Merkur dealers.