HAPPY DAYS
Aug 19, 2019
4 minutes
Words Daniel Bevis
Photos
Adrian Brannan
When it launched in 1974, the Capri II was very much the sensible Capri. Still ‘The car you always promised yourself’, sure, but far easier to justify to a questioning spouse or concerned bank manager thanks to the fact that it had a larger cabin and a shorter bonnet, you could buy it with a dinky little 1.3-litre engine, and it had a sensible hatchback rather than a fiddly bootlid. That promise you’d made to yourself had become a more achievable dream.
However, the Capri II wasn’t all about being sensible. After all, if you wanted spacious practicality and favourable fuel economy, you’d buy a lesser-engined Cortina, wouldn’t you? So the genius of Ford’s marketing here was to
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