The Ford Scorpio debuted in 1985 as a five-door hatchback. That was it. The sedan would arrive in 1989, and the estate only with the facelift in 1992. But the big European Ford also had extreme versions — as early as the autumn of 1985, the all-wheel-drive Ford Scorpio 4x4 was introduced, and in 1991, a 195-horsepower engine, tuned by British engineers at Cosworth, would be under the hood. However, this car would only receive an unassuming "24v" badge in its name. Why? What exactly were these atypical Scorpios? What did the automotive press say about them back then? How did these cars compare to their competitors? Let's flip through the pages of old magazines and dive into the episodes of automotive history from the eighties and nineties.

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