

Check the tables below for detailed outside and inside dimensions. It could have been Ford's answer to the Buick GNX. This car is 5133 mm / 202.1 in long, 1806 mm / 71.1 in wide and 1356 mm / 53.4 in high. 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. 30,230 Original Mile 1988 Thunderbird Turbo Coupe 2.3L turbocharged turbo 4 cylinder engine 5-speed manual transmission Catback exhaust system with dual. Back in the day, however, the supercharged 3.8L was a pretty heavy hitter. Multi-port fuel injection, a 2.3-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine, four-wheel disc brakes with ABS, automatic dampening, and automatic headlights. Compared to the 300hp Mustang GTs and 500hp Shelby GT500s, the specs of a 90 Thunderbird Super Coupe seem pretty tame.

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.
