Capri Report (Launch of Ford Capri MkIII) - 1978
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Published 2012-03-28
All Comments (21)
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Michael Rodd was one of the best of broadcasters we ever had. He never seemed to get the recognition he deserved. Always a consummate professional: Michael was up there along with Frank Bough and Mike Neville.
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You don't realise how beautiful these cars look. Seeing them around on occasions make you think why did they come to a end .. faultless body shape.
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Uy, esa matrícula de Tenerife? Grabado en España! y con el volante en el lado correcto. Muy bien, gran documento y aportación.
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Great up load thanks.
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Had three mk3 capris i would have another in a heart beat, just for the smilies per mile alone.
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He says the Capri was design to be a Capri, completely ignoring the fact that ford started with a Cortina as an underpinning base and then tried to make a Mustang of it. The cost compromise that had to be made resulted in a car which was unique, but an unintended consequence of cost savings.
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Yeh that was me and the wife, we took a Capri on our honeymoon in ‘76 happy memories (still married)😎❤️
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This is filmed in Tenerife , the Canary Islands in Spain
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I had a 3.0s and even in dry weather the back end would slip going round tight corners if I went in a bit too quick. I had to be very careful. Wet roads were even worse. Mine was an ex-police car (you could just make out the remains of the orange stripe round the door handles). Don't know if it's true but I heard other owners used to but bags of cement in the back to help with road-holding! That V6 engine sure did sound nice though....:)
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Those twin exhausts Sorted the men from the shopping trolleys .. yessss
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good vid. just cleaned the points on one there, the other week, havent worked on one for about 25 years,[ my ford capri wont start you tube], still a nice motor to drive, a real bird puller in their day,
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Many thanks for this review👍! I owned a 3.0S Essex as my 2nd car. Of course, I missed to invest in a 3rd party oil cooler. So, ouch I destroyed the 3.0 Essex at German highspeed Autobahn. It was already the 2nd engine 😖.
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My dad had a very early mark 3 on a S plate as a company car it was a 2.0s with ithe tennis racket head restraints. I think the colour was known as fjord blue iirc. Our neighbour had a signal orange 3.0s
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ONE OF MY DREAMCARS
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Ok, so the Capri wasn’t a coupe version of an existing saloon / sedan, but there was no denying that floor pan, and all running gear with the exception of steering was Cortina, I remember people glibly calling them re-bodied Cortinas - they looked far better than they actually drove - like most Fords!
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My dad had a 3.0 Ghia manual on a 'T' reg. It was lethal in the wet
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Mk3 Capri had a production run of nine years, with the greatest number of sales in Britain, hence why LHD examples were discontinued two years earlier, though by then the range was reduced to Laser & Injection. Once had a 2-litre Laser. Good to drive, good performance but a little bit "tail-happy" on damp surfaces.
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I suppose this was Ford UK's only real attempt at a sporty 2 door coupe. Ok at the time it didn't have much competition. And, with Bodie and Doyle of the "Proffessionals" both driving around in them, I suppose that made them cool. But the Yanks had the Mustang and other sporty cars to choose from. I went to LA in 1981 and saw quite a few Capri's out there, so they must have been quite popular out there aswell as over here.
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I WISHD ID HAD 2 CAPRIS SOME DAY BLACK AND GREEN
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intro music by the great Johnny Pearson
