As a central theme of the design, the ninth-generation Thunderbird marks the introduction of highly aerodynamic body design to Ford vehicles in North America (reducing its drag coefficient from 0.50 to 0.35), followed by similarly designed model lines, including the 1984 Ford Mustang SVO, 1984 Ford Tempo, 1986 Ford Aerostar, and 1986 Ford Taurus.
While remaining a personal luxury coupe (to minimize overlap with the Ford Mustang), the redesign of the Thunderbird marked a transition of the model range, emphasizing performance and handling over outright luxury and comfort content. In response to the sales downturn of the 1980–1982 Thunderbird, the Thunderbird underwent an extensive model revision for the 1983 model year. They still had their fans but the die-hards, like moi, we were few and far between.The ninth generation of the Ford Thunderbird is a personal luxury coupe that was manufactured and marketed by Ford for the 1983 to 1988 model years. The demise of the personal luxury all starting with the "Great Downsizing Epoch" that reduced most of them to stubby characturtures of what they had been. Blame shifting consumer tastes as folks whom ten, fifteen years prior may have bought a big, heavy, impractical domestic coupe opted for other fare. While Ford didn't have nearly as much riding on this car, it's Mercury Cougar clone or eventually the Lincoln Mark VIII as GM did on their mid size personal luxury cars, they didn't sell well either. Problem with these cars was that despite its good looks and refined chassis and power train they were dated even when they were brand new. North of seventy-five it 's all but gutless but what fun getting there. While horsepower gains were modest by even standards of the day, the biggest difference the blower made was to the seat of your pants when you stomp the gas - three-hundred and fifteen pounds of "right-now" torque up from two-hundred twenty.
Making all of one-hundred and forty-five brake horsepower and two-hundred twenty some pounds of torque in normal guise, the big blower rammed enough additional air in that horsepower spooled up to two-hundred and ten. The "Super" in "Super Coupe" refers to an Eaton M90 supercharger Ford strapped on it's "Vulcan", 3.8 liter V-6 engine.
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