Picture the scene: it’s Christmas Day, and you’re unable to move from the sofa. Stuffed with roast spuds, brimmed with gravy and with a paper crown atop your bonce, you’ve watched the royal speech and now the credits are rolling on the Only Fools & Horses special, Miami Twice from 1991 in which Delboy’s stopped his Capri from rattling by giving it a firm slap. You flick over to ITV and bingo, there’s a Professionals re-run with Bodie and Doyle skidding about in a 3.0S. Could there be a more quintessentially British afternoon? The Capri has always been a vital part of Brit culture, of course. We may not have got the myriad V8-powered muscle cars that Ford of America was churning out through the 1960s and 1970s, but we had the Capri instead: our very own V-engined muscle car with slinky hips and priapic proportions, forever associated with Dagenham
