Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Context: Captive import is a marketing term and a strategy for a vehicle that is foreign-built and sold under the name of an importer or by a domestic automaker through its own dealer distribution system., The Merkur XR4Ti ( eXperimental Racing , 4 series , Turbo , advanced Injection system ) was a short - lived United States and Canadian - market version of the European Ford Sierra XR4i . It was the brainchild of then Ford vice president Bob Lutz . It was sold in the US from 1985 to 1989 . It was the first vehicle sold by Merkur , followed in 1988 by the Merkur Scorpio ., The Ford Scorpio is an executive car that was produced by Ford Europe from 1985 to 1998. It was the replacement for the European Ford Granada line (although in the UK and Ireland the Scorpio was marketed under the Granada name until 1994). Like its predecessor, the Scorpio was targeted at the executive car market. A variant known as the Merkur Scorpio was sold briefly on the North American market during the late-1980s., Ford of Europe AG is a subsidiary company of Ford Motor Company founded in 1967 with headquarters in Cologne, Germany., The Merkur Scorpio is a modified version of the European Ford Scorpio with four doors and liftgate (hatchback). It was manufactured between 1987 and 1989 and sold by Merkur as 1988 and 1989 models. It first went on sale in the United States in May 1987, but was discontinued in October 1989. It was unsuccessful in the American market for a variety of reasons, and some contemporary observers blamed poor marketing of the brand and model for its quick demise., Merkur, "Mercury") was a short-lived automobile brand sold by the Lincoln-Mercury division of Ford Motor Company from 1985 to 1989. Using captive imports produced by the German division of Ford of Europe, Merkur was targeted at buyers of European luxury brands., Subject: merkur xr4ti, Relation: subclass_of, Options: (A) automobile (B) company (C) distribution (D) division (E) executive car (F) germany (G) hatchback (H) line (I) market (J) marketing (K) mercury (L) system (M) term (N) vehicle
Output (English): automobile