Ford Probe

The front-drive coupé, and it is a Mazda underneath — the GE platform, the FS four and the KL V6 all come from the MX-6 and the 626 it was built alongside, with a Ford body on top. That is the single most useful fact about it, because the engine and transmission material worth reading is written under Mazda's names and there is a great deal more of it. The KL V6 in the Probe GT is the engine most of these carry and the one that brings them in: it is a quad-cam design in a bay that was never generous, so timing belt work is the job that dominates ownership. The first-generation Probe of 1988-1992 is a different car on the older GD platform, and is outside what this page covers.