Me and my brother went to look at a XR2.

[91_festy_Gl]

Well today my brother found a guy wanting to sell his XR2 for 4500. Seeing as either of us didnt have any cash the guy asked my brother if he had anything to trade so my brother threw up his impreza. Guy was interested so we all met up and talked about the cars and what not. My brothers impreza has a slight lifter tick now and the guy pretty much acted like it was going to blow up or something. The XR2 was in cherry shape but I did notice as he pulled up the smell of oil, of course this "kid" was clearly still in high school and didnt know anything about anything when it comes to cars and what not anyways, after he made that comment about being scared of the engine blowing up my brother pretty much desided he didnt want to deal with this guy. What really got to me was him pulling out of the parking lot like his B6T had alot going for it. Im not sure how well the car pulled but from the looks of it, it didnt have really any pull to it. Maybe the B6T is diffrent in a festiva but in a stock XR2 they dont appear to have any real balls I guess you could say. From what I could tell my old low compression BP would of smashed that thing. I dont know I just hate when people are told what is wrong with a car or engine and then when they hear or see it and they act like the world is going to fall on their head. personally if the impreza was mine I would trade it for a XR2 but thats my brothers call. What killed me the most is the guy said that there was only 30,000 XR2's made and he also added that they are super rare. Seriously if they are that rare I wouldnt have seen 3 of them in this past year.

-End of rant

[bhazard]

I saw 4500 and thought you meant 450...

[getnpsi]

30,000 white ones one year maybe. Oh well no loss. You don't love your ride that much if you are willing to trade for the first thing that pulls up into a burger king lot, or wherever you guys met

[91_festy_Gl]

lol i was getting ready to tell the guy that if they were to trade that his dear XR2 would have been murdered and sacrificed for a festiva but I didnt.

[M3NTAL]

I saw 4500 and thought you meant 450...

X2

[91_festy_Gl]

Nope he wanted 4,500 dollars.

[getnpsi]

Cool cars for what they are but I'd rather go for a rwd miata, and I'd never pay 4500 for one of those either.

[sam.1956]

The Capri XR2 is a relatively heavy car for its size: Consumer Guide Automotive claims 2,432 lb. dry curb weight w/132 HP B6-turbo engine == 18.35 lb/hp.

Assuming the B6T engine weighs slightly more than the Festy's stock B3 (I took a guess): The stock Festiva's dry curb weight is 1,797 lb. So let's say it's 1,850 lb. with the B6T transplant. Thus the same 132 HP makes for a 14.01 lb/hp ratio in the Festy transplant; right at a 24% improvement.

FWIW, the same website lists the top worth as no more than $1,900 for an XR2 in outstanding condition.

Links I visited:

http://consumerguideauto.howstuffworks.com/1990-to-1994-mercury-capri-6.htm

http://consumerguideauto.howstuffworks.com/1990-to-1993-ford-festiva-6.htm

[Zanzer]

For that price you should have asked the guy if there was either a stack of $100 bills in the glovebox or a bar of gold under one of the seats

[kumalaba]

i bought one for 600.00 for the turbo engine , axles & tranny & its very clean

[bhazard]

Only a 94 xr2 could be worth remotely that much, and only for the collector value. It'd have to be perfect too.

Maybe rocketmans gtxr2.

[zoom zoom]

Pretty cool story bro..

I think the capri's are pretty rare..I can't recall ever having seen one out on the streets, they are never even for sale around here that I know of. Tbh before this site I didn't even know there was a "capri xr2"..

[FB71]

Pretty cool story bro..

yeah, cool starry brah...









sorry, I couldn't resist!!!!

[lanemeyer14]

AFAIK all capri xr2's were manufactured by Roger at FMS

[anomoly40]

$4500 and im sure greg would fly to your house and install a BP RT for you and take you to Golden Corral afterwards.