Prices
The original base price of the car was $23,390 (equal to approximately $47,849 today). Options included automatic transmission, power moonroof, and Touring Package. Most North American Scorpios were sold with automatic transmission (some estimate that as few as 60 came equipped with a T-9 5-speed manual transmission, similar to the one installed in the XR4Ti) and Touring Package which raised the sticker price to $26,405 (equal to approximately $54,017 today).
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