The market was fast pulling out of its early decade slump, and T-Bird shared in the renewed prosperity with some 170,500 sales for 1984. Changes that year were modest but useful. The V-6 discarded its carburetor for throttle-body injection that gave a slight power increase, and both it and the 302 V-8 took on Ford’s EEC-IV electronic control system, as already used on the Turbo Coupe engine.
The Turbo Coupe itself was unchanged save newly available three-speed automatic transmission. Heritage was renamed Elan, and a new Fila “designer” model was added with special colors and trim inspired by the Italian sportswear maker.
I thought that this generation of Thunderbirds was cool. It seemed ahead of its time when it was in production from 1983 to 1988.