| A near-decade of the Ford Probe, which was a car | | | | Ford engineers and executives had also conceived of |
| that proved quite interesting when it was first rolled out | | | | the Probe as being a model that would do well once oil |
| by the Blue Oval folks back in 1988 for the 1989 model | | | | prices rose, which the company believed would be |
| year, seemed to have gone by in the blink of an eye | | | | soon. With that in mind, engineers developed in |
| back then. Put forth as the replacement for the Ford | | | | conjunction with Mazda a couple of different 4 and 6 |
| EXP two-seater, it was built off the well-liked Mazda | | | | cylinder iterations which managed to deliver good |
| G platform, and made in front-wheel-drive only. It was | | | | performance and good fuel economy, though the car |
| also supposed to replace the Mustang, though that | | | | never managed to live up to sales goals set by Ford. |
| never happened. | | | | |