What is the Ford Probe? 

The higher brakes were from first gen mazda 6 not mazda 626 😉

If this car were rear wheel drive could have been a real competitor to the nissan S chassis

My neighbor somehow has two pristine examples of the second gen. Mind was blown the moment I saw one in solid condition. Truly one of a kind

As a previous 93 GT owner! I absolutely loved the car. It had some good power and what I loved is that being front wheel drive I could leave many much more powerful cars in the dust IN THE SNOW! It had awesome traction in the snow. It was my second car ever owned and I miss it! I had a ton of fun driving it! Thanks for the video!!!! Brings back memories!

I loved my '93 Probe GT! What a unique, comfortable enjoyable car. I loved the styling and shifting gears hearing that v6 purr. I would love to get another one some day. But even when I had mine, almost no shop wanted to work on it because it didn't use OBD 2

I had 3 of them 1993, 1996, 1997 Ford Probe. Same car, but i loved it so much that i bought them at different times. I used to fill up my tank with $10. Until gas started getting crazy. I ended up filling up the tank with $22 at that time. The Probe had really comfortable seats, and it drove so smoothly. I was also amazed at how quiet the car was. I, of course, ended up putting a muffler, headers, racing coils, and a stage 2 clutch with a performance pressure plate. The gear box on this car was also as smooth as butter. Damn i miss the good old days.

A very underated car. I spent a lot of time in the passenger seat in my late teens. A friend had got his hands on a Probe and some mods to it, wheels exhaust etc and full custom fibre glass body kit and front bar with 4 round lights like the type R Integra at the time. It made it look very aggressive and nobody at the time could tell what car it was. The fastest car i have ever been in at top speed and it really holds well. The fun times cruising and times we got pulled over by the police. Dont forget the windscreen sticker. He had that also on the car.... " ON PROB-ATION"

Ever since my dad let me buy a 96 probe from him like 10 years ago. I have been obsessed with it. So I just picked up a 93 4 years ago. It was a stick so I learned to drive it because I like the car that much. Hey stylish and pop up head lights 😬👍

These cars along with the Dodge Daytona and Chevy Beretta were my favorites as a teenager in the late 90s. The Daytona looked so bad-ass.

I had a ‘93 PGT, loved that thing. I used to auto cross and track it at Grattan and Gingerman racetracks, often beating cars with a lot more HP. Thing handled awesome for a FWD coupe!

I didn't know about the car till today. I love it

I owned one for a very short time. It was the last Gen GT V6 5spd with the Mazda engine. I bent a valve a week after owning it, kept driving it that way and a week later totalled it and was helicopter lifted to the Hospital where I stayed for a week. I was very young (17) and dumb, wasn't making the best decisions back then which led to all those events. The car was actually pretty nice, even to this day

Guy, I was in the military with. Had a 94 ford probe gt black. He added aftermarket rims and a boozoka tube in the trunk. That car looked sick and sporty. The owner asked if I wanted to buy the car. At the time I wanted a poetic firebird or trans am. I went into the marine corps in 95. Great memories. Thanks for the video.

Had a friend in HS, who's mom had one. Right when he got his driver's license, we took his mom's car around downtown. Cruising around. It was a fun car to ride in. Had the subwoofer in the back, and the EQ in the dash. I really liked that car. I remember my mom wanting one when they came out with the 93 GT. She settled for a 93 Ford Escort LX. That was a cool little car, and I Still want one of those too.

Fond memories of the Probe brother, very pretty car for its time. If you were there then, you know 😎

The first Ford vehicle I ever owned was a 1989 Probe LX. I was familiar with the model and I had driven my brother's gold GL many times. At the time I had a 88 Pontiac Bonneville that somebody had hit and totaled and I was going from dealership to dealership and fell in love with a Toyota Cressida but left when the salesman blew me off. On my way home I saw this white Ford Probe and bought it right on the spot. The one I had was a 'check all options' version. Power windows , locks, power driver seat, removable glass sunroof, trip computer, digital dash. I loved it and never had any problems with it. I maintained it thoroughly and drove it for 3 years before selling it to my cousin when I bought my 1995 Taurus SHO. The modifications to my car were quite simple. I had Probe GT tail lights because they were smoked, all the windows were tinted including the windshield, and I had Mazda RX-7 BBS wheels on it. It was a sharp car and I thoroughly loved it. I regret selling it.

I had a 95 that I debadged and took to Italy in 96 (military). It was amazing on those narrow roads and really turned heads.

I had a 89 Probe. The best thing was the handling. It was like it rode on rails. The trunk could hold a bathtub easily. The styling was an eye catcher. The engine was not bad, either. It was my 2nd favorite car I owned. The 2014 Mustang GT I own now is my favorite.

I loved my 98' Probe dearly ... I took it on the Autobahn in Germany and it was fantastic.

The probe gt was great. I had 2 of them. Loved it

They are actually pretty nice driving cars. The v6 sounds pretty nice too

I just bought a '93 Probe GT and, although it needs some minor repairs, I'm really happy with it. Since I was little, I always thought they looked so cool and now I'm glad to own one. It's definitely a car that should've had more attention.

Found my ‘91 Probe GT, in great condition, 4 years ago as I was finishing school. Beautiful car that I’ll get to get to drive for a long time.

I built one of the 93's with jdm parts, and some serious elbow grease for a customer. Complete with Lambo doors. Made 214hp w/ a stick shift. He was of the "love it" crowd. Nice video!

I live in france and those are even more rare here, i discovered it completly by chance and fell in love at first sight, so after i worked for a bit, i could afford one and bought a red 2.0 16v in superb condition in 2021, and boy what a car it was, the popups were so satisfying, the interior is so well designed, and this is such a beautiful car, i felt so good in it, and my friends loved it too. But this year after only a year i wanted to get something "faster"... What a mistake, i sold it to buy a 2000 Catfish Camaro with the 3.8 V6, i sold it only after 2 weeks and i felt so bad selling my probe after that, now i have a 2006 Citroen C4 VTS, you might not know much about it in the US. One day i hope i'll be able to get my hand on a Probe again, but a V6 this time, but for some reasons, the price tags of V6's started to go sky high during this last year, so i might not gonna be able to get one for a while. Thank you for your video.

Back in the early 2000s I bought an 89 Probe GT. I gave it a cheap paint job, new struts and springs, wheels, tires, and a few engine upgrades. It hit the Dyno at 174hp and 237 ft lbs torque. I still look back at the days of running with the wrxs and smocking all the civics.

I owned a 93 Ford Probe GT with the 2.5L V6 and a manual trans-axle. I liked it. I traded it for a 97 Mustang GT convertible with the 4.6L V8 and a manual transmission. The Probe had better handling, but the Mustang went 280,000 miles without any major work. They were both fun and inexpensive to maintain.

Best video I've seen on the probes it's great dude I can hear the love for the probe in your voice, maybe one day the probe will be more widely known once more are driven and fixed up if interest continue to rise maybe it'll even be fully recognized for the great car it is

One of my dream cars

These cars aged really well. Back in the day these were throwaway cars. Compared to the blandness of modern cars, the Probes really stand out.

You didn't have to make an entire video explaining what it is, it can all be summed up in 3 words. An. Underrated. Car.

My dad being a huge muscle car guy from the late 60's and early 70's, he used to own a 1985 Mazda RX7, and a 1989 Ford Probe GT Turbo. Both manual. Both fun times. Riding in those cars before the age of 10, plus the first FnF movie, really permanently solidified my love for imports.

Probe GT V6 was my first car in 2003 in Switzerland. It looked and drove so much cooler than the boring VW's and Audis at the time. At night it felt like a Batmobile or Spaceship 😎

The Probe was awesome. I had an Integra and my friend had a Probe. Very similar in performance and both looked awesome

I owned a Mazda MX-6 LS. All of the Probe owners that I knew loved my car, some of them had actually drove a MX-6 and liked it more than their Probes. I also remember showing that engine to my mechanic friends and they say things like "Wow, such a big engine in such a little car!". That MX-6 was fast, it handled well, and was very practical. But the thing I remember most about that car was it was as tough as a tank. I didn't have much money when I owned it and I missed a lot of tune ups and oil changes, but it still ran like a race car.

I had a Black 2nd Gen 94 Probe Gt 5 speed manual in my teens. Swapped motor. lowering springs. white rims.body kit. It was blast to drive!

The ford probe gen2 is one of my fav cars ever and i own one, i ordered and made myself a turbo kit that ill be installing soon, i have the 2L 16v FS engine. I have it on full slammed mazda protege coilovers and nice japan racing 12 16"rims on it i love it so much and ill never sell it its my dream build amd im so proud of it And even without modding it the 16v is still super fun to drive especially on voilovers and good tires, the chassis is amazing and you feel everything, not to mention that for a 115hp car it has a lot of torque and its insanely fun im so happy that i bought this car which was one of my dream cars

i bought a 96 as a first car 2 months and i love it. bouta turbo and upgrade clutch to stage 2😈

Underrated car. The haters haven't driven them and can only knock the name.

the probe was ok, I had a few, but the real winner was the MX6 I only had 2 of them tho, honestly at the time, I wasn’t interested in it and to tell you the truth I thought exactly what you said, I thought it was a knock off probe, until I found one so cheap I couldn’t resist, it was a 90 mx6 GT turbo, once I drove it… that was it and I was hooked, the 4ws (4 wheel steering system) and the aas (3 way electronically adjustable suspension system) was amazing it could take corners at double the speeds of the probe and would keep up in the twisty bends with my buddy’s corvette, it was miles ahead of the handling of my z28, and with a few turbo swaps and mods kept up on the straight with the Vette too!, a few years later and it was getting difficult to keep the 4ws and aas alive, parts were getting harder and harder to find and more n more expensive so I just sold her and bought a 1996 mx6 lx Tho only the JDM versions got the 4ws by then and it was okay but nothing like the first gens mx6s, I miss that car so much at times, I tried to see if I could find another one and they’re around but every single one I found had the 4ws and aas not working and it’s either the computer systems are fried or parts impossible to find, the only other car i had that compared to it was my 3000GT VR4, and that’s another car I had to sell due to age and becoming difficult to fix and impossible to find parts,

I had a 93 one of these in college, it was my first car, but rust took it, cuz i live up north. I found a pretty clean 97 a lot like it though last year, in green, trying to get her fixed up slowly as i can afford it...

I've owned 2 probes. Loved them both. I traded my 2nd one ('97 GTS) in for a car my, now EX wife, could drive (couldn't drive a stick)... Should've kept the car...

I had a 93 GT. Went from a Porsche 944 to the Ford. It was a great car. Engine was smooth and the ride comfortable.

I have my 93 GT 5-speed with 42k original miles. It really is a fun car to drive.

I love that you did this for the probe. I had a klze swap in mine and it was awesome hot shot header sorry they went out of business. Cold air intake and borla exhaust and some other work by far one of my favorite non turbo cars I ever had mine was a 93 gt five speed

A good friend has a 2nd gen GT, and loved it. He sold it when his work place required him to get a new work car, which was so nice it didn't make sense to have it and the Probe.

I’m an old man who had a ‘94 Mazda MX-6 and rented an ‘89 Probe when new. I thought they were fantastic cars, very underrated. Haven’t seen one in person in many years.

My brother-in-law was obsessed with Probe GT's befor he got into M3's. I had a blast riding shotgun with Metallica and Korn slamming in my ears.

6:40 this version of the Probe to this day STILL looks "ahead of it's time". I owned (2) versions of this one = 1995 SE and 1996 GT. My 95 had the super cool 'chromalusion' Boison Berry. My GT was the far superior one because it had better performance from the gate. Has been YEARS since I have seen one of these on the road 😮‍💨

I was like 10 years old, and my aunt got a brand new Probe. Was such a futuristic looking car. All the other cars at the time looked like boxes.

My first car was a 2nd gen Probe GT that I got at 16. I LOVED that car man…fully optioned out and you’re right very well handling. Second best handling car ive ever owned second only to the RX8 I had. Sadly I only had this car for a year before going to a 5.0 mustang (not sad about the mustang either). Now I’m 36 and have owned a wide variety of vehicles several mustangs Camaros imports trucks but my passion for vehicles started with the 2nd gen Ford probe

2nd gen Probe GT is one of my favourite cars. My first car was a 93 GT, had it for 5 years before I had to sell it due to a no-start problem caused by electrical problems. The most fun FWD car I have ever driven, and I love the look and sound of them. May have to buy one again sometime! If it was RWD, it would outclass Nissan S13 in pretty much all categories except tuneability (2nd gen). Also you can put a lot of stuff in the trunk, especially with the rear seats folded. The side profile is really sleek, and pop up headlights is always awesome. Really like the wrap around rear window and low nose. The Mustang from about the same era however looks extremely bad, would never buy one of those... good thing they didn´t stick with that design language

Still a great looking car. In the late nineties, my wife had a 95 blue GT manual with factory chrome rims and the mach stereo system. Fun car for the times.

Many years ago, my GF and I got a good deal on an 89 Probe LX and at the time it was the fastest car I'd ever been in or drove! That 3 litre transverse mounted V6 really made that front wheel drive car into a rocket ship! Especially for a couple of 17 year olds! It was our pride and joy until the head on collision with a white E36 cabrio BMW. After some tinkering I got it to work again without a front bumper or the front clip. It was a weight savings of like 200 lbs! I can't believe we used to drive it like that! It was UGLY but fun!

Back in the late 90's I had a 1990 Probe with the 2.2 non-turbo and 5 speed. Red with burgundy interior. I honestly miss that car. It drove well, gave reasonable power for the era and the trans was a tight shift. I was in my teens and even though gas was under $2 a gallon minimum wage was $5.15. So shit balances out. I loved the mileage this car got. After that car was gone I got a 90 Beretta GTZ with a 5 speed and met my now ex-wife. Still think the second gen of probe looked the best, but the first gen was a good car.

The JDM KLZE engine was a great mod for thet 2nd gen GTS and gave it a boost in power. The 1st Gen could of used the FE3 Turbo motor and would of been wicked.... Later on people swapped in the FE3 engines and the 1st gens where clocking in sub 12 sec times.

I had a Probe GT, used it as a arrive and drive track day car and ran away from many much more expensive cars. Very reliable, unfortunately almost no aftermarket support for performance parts.

Pyrodor this video is amazing my kind of content love it deserve all the subscribers man keep it up

My mom had 1 of these when I was a kid such a classic looking back mid 90s ish

I had a 95 Ford Probe was a decent car great MPG 30 plus and lots of trunk space handled great but not very fast. It was pretty reliable

I owned an 89 prone GT turbo (shown at 4:40), it was a great car and surprised a lot of people with how fast it was at the time.

Dude, how do you only have 500 and something subscribers?! Keep going man, I thought you were a 500k+ channel with your swagger, subbed

My probe 1995 SE 2.0L 5 speed manual lasted me 300k miles before a geezer t-boned me. Everything original on the engine and transmission side. Drove that thing like I stole it most of the time and across the U.S from Detroit to Seattle 4 times. Never left me stranded. It also delivered 38-39 MPG consistently. Kept it for 16 years.

Always liked the style of the last gen probe. Actually I was a late 90s high school kid and there was ALOT of probes on the road back then. Mazda MX3s too. I rarely see them on the roads anymore. It was a lot nicer looking than my 95' Escort GT lol.

I do have the Probe and yes parts are hard to come by. I could not get KL-ZE engine but did manage to port the VRIS to KL-DE. And short ram intake. More to do but not much of the community where I am. And thanks for making this vid

The Ford probe was one hell of a car at it's time. It was pretty fast compared to other sports cars at the time. I definitely had fun with mine

I had a '96 Ford Probe GT V6 w/ a manual transmission, loved that car!

Probe beautiful car :)

I had a Mazda MX-6 for my first car stick shift. Had a similar engine V6 in the probe. I raced a mint eclipse turbo with just exhaust and it was dead even we both gave thumbs up 👍🏻.

Had a 93 Probe GT, best car ever! Handled great, awesome V6, huge hatch and unstoppable in the snow.

Man this is the car I always wanted in high school!

The Probe is one of the coolest cars I've ever seen. I love everything about it.

A few of these look like rx7s

I can remember my dad at an auction in the early 2000’s bidding on a 1997 PGT with an auto. It was white. Loaded. I wanted it so bad for my first car. It went for $6500. What a clean car.

I had the rarest probe ever made because I rebuilt it from the ground up. It cost 30k to build and I sold it for 3 grand to a kid that had a rare disease. Man I miss that car

Owned 2 first Gen's ('89-'90). 2.2 Liter Turbo. Probe GT (PGT). It was a fun car and great on the highway! Edit: Great video! These are rare indeed. You can spot a first gen Probe in Back to the future. I was only able to spot it because I'm an past owner of the 1st gen.

My buddy had one back in high school in the 80's. It was a real hot car back then.

I really enjoyed this format, good research btw. Subbed and looking forward to more!

I had a 1989 Ford Probe GT Turbo in manual, when I was in high school in the late 90s. I loved that car. Cool fact the Ford Probe was used a lot in Back to the Future Part 2.

Second gen was much better than the first one. The thing that really hurt the Probe was the Mazda engine controls, aka MECs. It was not an easy system to diagnose issues on. As these cars age, the electrical systems have many problems. The other big factor that worked against them is that the Mazda parts are/were very expensive. We used to call the Probe A "Fordrarri". Because the parts costs were often just insane. Especially front suspension and the electronics. I recall replacing the Alternator on a 96 Probe GT was quoted as costing $800 in 1997. As nice as they were, they just don't excite many enthusiasts today because of the sketchy electronics and poor parts availability conspire to make having one pretty expensive.

I've owned a probe for about ten years. One of the best handling cars I've ever driven. It was impressive for it's time, and it kinda still is today as cars get heavier and heavier, so much feel. They are rare these days but get one if you can afford the parts!

This car is still ahead of the time design wise on the outside. It actually won an award. I loved my Ford Probe GT. I doubt we will ever see the nameplate resurrected, but never say never. If it were done right, I would buy one.

Loved my ‘93 GT. I had a cat-back straight-pipe exhaust and it sounded glorious, like a trombone! It really ripped from 5-7K RPM and handled like a dream!

Loved this video. Should do more cars like this. I recently just got a 18 Fiesta ST...those cars have a fun history too 🤘

That was great. A love letter to a misunderstood car, coming from a true fan.

gosh you are so right about the older folks! even my dad owned one in 1990s and its unusual because he owned it in russia

Man I had an 98 MX-6 with a ZE. That thing was so sick. They’re so rare to see now.

That 2nd gen still looks good today, it’s a shame that none are still on the road. Certain cars just came & went.

just recently, we've had a Blue Ford Probe showing up in SoCal car meets. absolutely fucking love how it looks

The Best Fwd Car Ever Made ❤️❤️❤️ best regards from Ford Probe Club Poland 😎😎😎

Learned to drive stick in a 97 Probe 4 banger. It had the smoothest clutch and shift that I've ever felt in a manual car till this day... Modern manual transmissions always have a "dead spot" in the clutch and I hate it. The little probe handled like it was on rails and saved my bacon one day when a truck pulled in front of me. Little Car swerved on a dime and got me outta there unscathed in a split second lmao. The little 4 banger also sounded.... Pretty damn good for a little 2L??? No annoying rasp or rattles. Even had a nice grunt to it that I never heard before haha. Still miss it. It rusted out on me years ago

We built a RWD 1996 Ford Probe for a customer, bk in the late 1990s. V8 powered. Then we purchased it bk from the like the 3rd owner, about 20 yrs later. ( yeah, it was difficult to hunt dwn) It is on RU-vid, if anyone wants to see it? I can probably find the name of the short video of it. Its sitting in my shop now. Be cool if someone wanted to make a YT video of it, & all the technology we implemented into that build, quite long ago. 😄 Ive built hundreds of cars, & its by far my favorite of them all. Our #2 may be a '41 Willys V8. Thx for this great vid highlighting the unique & cool history of this Ford 2dr-low budget, production sport car!!

Love the enthusiasm buddy, I had many of these cars hated some, loved 1 . From VT

I think the problem Ford guys had with this car was most FWD Fords of this era were usually garbage all the way around, while RWD Ford anything was usually very reliable and took hella mileage like a champ.

Used have a brand new one in blue GT when i was high school. Loved that!!! Especially sunroof

The second generation of the ford probe is absolutely gorgeous!

I had an 89 Ford Probe LX and it was a great Car!!! Replaced it with a 99 Mecury Cougar, and that was an even greater Car!

I had a silver ‘94 probe GT with color matching Pantera wheels. Got a lot of compliments on that whip.

Those are great cars. I delivered Pizza in one of those things for 10 years. Rain sleet snow and shine. And when I say snow, I mean Michigan snow. I don't care what Buffalo New York says, they don't get nowhere near the type of snow that we get. And that little car, wasn't absolute soldier. I paid $200 for it. With a broken windshield and a blown transmission. I put a windshield in it, and a junkyard transmission. And I just couldn't kill that thing. Pulled the rear stabilizer pins out of it, because they were over a hundred bucks a piece. And that little sucker would corner like it was on rails. When the exhaust went out in it, I dropped a header, and an aftermarket downpipe on it. Cut the catalytic converter out of it, and got, almost 30 miles to the gallon. It's amazing how it works out with Fords ... It's almost as if, they're EGR is nothing more than a complicated facade. It looks like it's doing a lot. But, get it all out from underneath the hood, and it does even more. It's almost like somebody in the country of California told them that they had to restrict the power of their engines. To pass their b******* California emissions laws. Which is exactly why I live in Michigan. But the fact of the matter is, my car, my Ford probe, was one of the best cars I ever had. And I would 100%, get another one. I'm not sure why, everybody gets all pissed off when somebody steals their catalytic converter. Those thieves are doing you a tremendous service. Stick a freaking cheater pipe in it, and enjoy your car again.

Ford probe styling was ahead of its time... i had the mazda mx6 all blacked out was also a beauty in the 90's and early 2000s