{"id":23811,"date":"2011-11-16T19:28:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T19:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=23811"},"modified":"2022-06-28T12:48:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T11:48:31","slug":"ford-capri-the-evolution-of-the-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/ford-capri-the-evolution-of-the-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of the Capri"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you count the finned and chromed Consul GT version of the Capri, our favourite Ford has had four evolutions across a life-span of some 25 years. That’s if you don’t count, of course, the various stateside Fords that have borne the noble moniker. And though there have been subtle but certain changes in design, there’s a unity too. That unity is the marketing space that the Capri has occupied. More than anything else the Capri has represented that achievable, practical desirability to which the working man is able to aspire. We dig out some gems of the visual culture of the Capri.<\/p>\n

Consul Capri GT 1961-64<\/strong><\/em>
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All chrome, rake, fin and Americana, the Consul Capri<\/a> was a glamorous if short-lived precursor to the full-blooded Capris. Doomed to be eclipsed by the similar, toned down Mk1 versions of Ford’s mass market star the Cortina<\/a>, it was slow, heavy and a little overstyled for Dagenham. Its rakishness, however, hinted at the future.<\/p>\n

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MK1 Capri 1969-73<\/em><\/strong>
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When the first Capri was launched in 1969 at the Brussels Motor Show <\/a>it was received with enthusiasm. Not wanting to exclude the mass European public, Ford covered the bases with a massive range of specs and engines, from lowly 1.3 everyman to vinyl and chrome clad GXL versions for the middle manager type. It was the GT version, however that would come closest to the aesthetic of its beefy American cousin. The ads reflected that urbane panache. You could almost smell the Brut 33<\/a>.<\/p>\n