The Crossfire is starting to remind me of the Merkur of the 80's, except our cars have all German running gear and engineering. Back in the day, the Merkur XR4Ti was going for about $23K in 1989, alot of money IIRC and the Merkur Scorpio was in the mid 30's IIRC, damn! The mistake with the XR4Ti was electrical and price tag, same with the Scorpio's, although I don't know about the electrical problems, but I know this, a car with a 2.9L V6 that weighed about 2 tons and costs in the mid 30's wasn't going to sell very well over here at that time, no way in heck. I've seen some nice Merkurs around, a lady at work here has a friend who's got an 89' Scorpio w/ 29K on the clock and there was an 88' XR w/90K going for about $2,500, wish I'd bought that one, it was almost brand new. In closing our cars will not have the same "rep" as those cars, even if they were built at the same plant!