Information:  - Captive import is a marketing term and a strategy for a vehicle that is foreign-built and sold under the name of an importer or by a domestic automaker through its own dealer distribution system.  - The Merkur XR4Ti ( eXperimental Racing , 4 series , Turbo , advanced Injection system ) was a short - lived United States and Canadian - market version of the European Ford Sierra XR4i . It was the brainchild of then Ford vice president Bob Lutz . It was sold in the US from 1985 to 1989 . It was the first vehicle sold by Merkur , followed in 1988 by the Merkur Scorpio .  - The Ford Scorpio is an executive car that was produced by Ford Europe from 1985 to 1998. It was the replacement for the European Ford Granada line (although in the UK and Ireland the Scorpio was marketed under the Granada name until 1994). Like its predecessor, the Scorpio was targeted at the executive car market. A variant known as the Merkur Scorpio was sold briefly on the North American market during the late-1980s.  - Ford of Europe AG is a subsidiary company of Ford Motor Company founded in 1967 with headquarters in Cologne, Germany.  - The Merkur Scorpio is a modified version of the European Ford Scorpio with four doors and liftgate (hatchback). It was manufactured between 1987 and 1989 and sold by Merkur as 1988 and 1989 models. It first went on sale in the United States in May 1987, but was discontinued in October 1989. It was unsuccessful in the American market for a variety of reasons, and some contemporary observers blamed poor marketing of the brand and model for its quick demise.  - Merkur, "Mercury") was a short-lived automobile brand sold by the Lincoln-Mercury division of Ford Motor Company from 1985 to 1989. Using captive imports produced by the German division of Ford of Europe, Merkur was targeted at buyers of European luxury brands.    'merkur xr4ti' is related to which object entity through the relation of 'subclass of'?  Choices: - automobile  - company  - distribution  - division  - executive car  - germany  - hatchback  - line  - market  - marketing  - mercury  - system  - term  - vehicle
automobile
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Information:  - Ferdinand I ( Spanish : Fernando I ) ( 10 March 1503 -- 25 July 1564 ) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1558 , king of Bohemia and Hungary from 1526 , and king of Croatia from 1527 until his death . Before his accession , he ruled the Austrian hereditary lands of the Habsburgs in the name of his elder brother , Charles V , Holy Roman Emperor . Also , he often served as Charles ' representative in Germany and developed useful relationships with German princes . The key events during his reign were the contest with the Ottoman Empire , whose great advance into Central Europe began in the 1520s , and the Protestant Reformation , which resulted in several wars of religion . Ferdinand was able to defend his realm and make it somewhat more cohesive , but he could not conquer the major part of Hungary . His flexible approach to Imperial problems , mainly religious , finally brought more result than the more confrontational attitude of his brother . Ferdinand 's motto was Fiat iustitia , et pereat mundus : `` Let justice be done , though the world perish '' .  - The Spanish Empire was one of the largest empires in history. It reached the peak of its military, political and economic power under the Spanish Habsburgs, through most of the 16th and 17th centuries, and its greatest territorial extent under the House of Bourbon in the 18th century, when it was the largest empire in the world. The Spanish Empire became the foremost global power of its time and was the first to be called "the empire on which the sun never sets".  - Habsburg Netherlands is the collective name of Holy Roman Empire fiefs in the Low Countries held by the House of Habsburg and later by the Spanish Empire, also known as the Spanish Netherlands. The rule began in 1482, when after the death of the Valois-Burgundy duke Charles the Bold the Burgundian Netherlands fell to the Habsburg dynasty by the marriage of Charles's daughter Mary of Burgundy to Archduke Maximilian I of Austria.  - Charles V (; Dutch: "Karel") (24 February 1500  21 September 1558) was ruler of both the Spanish Empire from 1516 and the Holy Roman Empire from 1519, as well as of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1506. He voluntarily stepped down from these and other positions by a series of abdications between 1554 and 1556. Through inheritance, he brought together under his rule extensive territories in western, central, and southern Europe, and the Spanish colonies in the Americas and Asia. As a result, his domains spanned nearly four million square kilometers and were the first to be described as "the empire on which the sun never sets".    'ferdinand i' is related to which object entity through the relation of 'noble family'?  Choices: - house of bourbon  - house of habsburg
house of habsburg
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