J4CKO

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I remember a bit of excitement a while back about Ford reinventing the Capri, its all gone quiet, anybody know what happened to it ?

NotoriousREV

It'll be here alongside the Focus Cosworth and available the day the Titanic docks in New York

alcazar

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Alcazar

SupaMiniCupa

Wasn't that supposed to be the Puma? No, Cougar? No Probe?

Fabioso

God knows, I am not sure if its just the usual car magazine bull$hit or whether its the Ford marketing machine on overdrive..........

I distinctly remember them discussing the new Ford Capri too, as far as I can see its total bollicks..........

TBH I don't understand Ford, the Puma for all its supposed girly looks was a great drivers car, so what do they do ? retire it off and don't replace it with anything but a 1.6/2.0 fookin Fiesta that won't **** in a fookin pot........which to me is just visiting numptyville and a half.........

I hope the Focus ST is the kinda car they say it is..........10 seconds faster round the Nuremburgring than the RS...............yes please!!

Aslong as it doesn't have a tendency to wanna jump into oncoming traffic like its older cousin...........

J4CKO

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It just seems a shame when every other company, including ford to some extent (Thunderbird, GT40) are plundering their back catalogues that we get the bloody hideous Beetle and VW manage to sell it but the Capri could be a stunner and stays as a concept ?

They have even started making the fabled 'Texan' bar again, everybody over 30 remembers them and will buy at least 1, I know a car is a bit more challenging to build than a choccy bar but nostalgia sells. I dont think anybody would have bought the new Beetle if it wasnt steeped in 1960's counter culture, surfer, acid trip, flower power, woodstock bollocks because it is just a very ugly impractical rebodied Golf, Mazda released something similarly hideous called the 121 and it bombed.

So, we have all these 30 - 70 year olds that had a Capri in their younger days or younger people that want a cheap cool coupe (how the first one worked) and Ford dont build it ?

Letter to Goodwin in Autocar I think.

stilover

Basically ford like to show concept cars that every one wants. New Capri, Focus Cosworth, Fiesta RS etc. They then give possible power outputs & drivetrain specs that make people want them even more. They then take some of these concept cars around to shows (like they did with the Fiesta RS) which make people want them even more than before. They then drop the idea. Well done Ford.

They dropped the Focus Cosworth, 4wd, 300bhp, as there is no market for it, apparently. Subaru and Mitsubushi then go ahead & sell shed loads of 4wd, high powered cars.
They dropped the Fiesta RS, as there was no market for it, apparently. Both Vauxhall and Renault are now developing 200bhp+ small hatchbacks (the Corsa VXR and new Clio sport) that will sell shed loads.

No wonder Ford are in the ****. All they seem to be bothered about are large MPV's, medium sized MPV's, and small MPV's. Oh yes, and the new Ka. If they looked at other maunfactures and see how by giving the public a high performance variant of a model, it bolsters sales of the lesser specced model, as the brand has a sporty image, rather than the dull one that Ford are trying so hard to create for themselves.

There, rant over !

Aaron C. Reskew

Have they? Cool

Stiff

Could it have been this?
http://msn.autoweek.nl/newsdisp.php?cache=no&ID=1813
Dunno what is says, I don't speak foriegn.