1994 Ford Thunderbird Super Coupe: More Power, a New V-8

This record's own dek states plainly that the facelifted Super Coupe rose to 230 hp and 330 lb-ft for 1994, and that the 4.6 modular V-8 replaced the 5.0; this record's own overview repeats that Wikipedia gives the 1994 Super Coupe 230 hp at 4,400 rpm and 330 lb-ft, with the automatic upgraded to the 4R70W, and the base V-8 changed to the 4.6-liter modular SOHC at 205 hp, and this record's own coverage field is marked partial rather than complete for the year.¹

This record's own overview also states that Wikipedia's tenth-generation production table gives 121,082 Thunderbirds of all series for 1994, while the Thunderbird infoway compilation lists 2,647 Super Coupes, 722 of them with the five-speed manual; this record's own production section carries all of these as separate rows, adding a fourth row for 51,056 naturally aspirated Thunderbirds and a fifth for 66,657 Thunderbirds with the new 4.6 V-8, the largest single engine-configuration row in this record for the year.^1,2

This record's own production notes again state that the infoway rows come from one enthusiast compilation crediting Ford media material rather than a named document, that the five-speed figure is a subset of the Super Coupe row, and that none of these rows are reconciled against the Wikipedia/Tast whole-line total or added together in this record. Every one of the five production rows carries this same caveat, not only the Super Coupe and five-speed figures.²

This record's own engines section carries the supercharged, intercooled 3.8-liter V-6 at 230 hp peaking at 4,400 rpm and 330 lb-ft peaking at 2,500 rpm, available on the Super Coupe, alongside the 4.6-liter modular SOHC V-8 with sequential EFI at 205 hp peaking at 4,500 rpm and 265 lb-ft peaking at 3,200 rpm, optional on non-Super-Coupe Thunderbirds; neither rating's own standard field names the measurement basis behind the figure. This record's own transmissions section carries the 4R70W four-speed automatic, coded by Ford's own transmission code, as optional on the Super Coupe, with no code or production figure recorded for any other transmission entry in this record for the year.¹

This record's own prices section is empty, and a separate priceNotes field explains why rather than leaving the gap silent: a J.D. Power live-valuation figure once stood in its place before being pulled from every page on the site as of September 24, 2026, because those pages could change without notice and could not be independently checked, with no replacement source found yet.¹

This record's own keyFacts, performance, identification, conflicts and unpublished-leads sections are empty for the year, and no option price or dimension appears anywhere in it. This record's own title identifies the car as the "1994 Ford Thunderbird Super Coupe," naming the Super Coupe trim directly rather than the newly modular-V8-powered LX, even though the brochure described below gives the LX most of its pages and the V-8 was an LX-only option.¹

This record's own options, paint, interiors and specifications sections come from Ford's 1994 Thunderbird brochure (form 934-Ann. 8/93), which covers the LX and the Super Coupe and prints no prices or dimensions. Its Performance page puts the new 4.6 liter SOHC V-8, optional on the LX, at 205 horsepower (SAE net) at 4,500 rpm and 265 lb-ft at 3,200 rpm, and the Super Coupe's supercharged, intercooled 3.8 at 230 horsepower at 4,400 rpm and 330 lb-ft at 2,500 rpm, the same peak figures this record's own engines section carries; it also introduces an electronically controlled four-speed automatic, standard on the LX and optional on the Super Coupe.

This record's own options section carries twenty-two entries from the brochure's options table, keyed to Preferred Equipment Packages 155A for the LX and 157A for the Super Coupe, among them three equipment groups, a luxury group, a hands-free cellular phone, a compact disc changer and Electronic Traction Assist, which the table says was unavailable on a Super Coupe with the five-speed manual. The paint section lists twelve exterior colors, eleven for the LX and seven for the Super Coupe, each with its interior trim pairings, and the interiors section lists five trim colors, Evergreen on the LX only, plus each model's standard seats. Driver and front passenger air bags are listed as standard.