The Ford Capri was Europe’s pony car long before the Mustang went global

[Bob Riebe]

https://www.topspeed.com/cars/1969-1986-ford-capri-the-european-pony-car-that-came-before-the-mustang-ar191927.html

[Lloyd Smale]

i remember mercury selling the american ones but that was back when everything was slow

[jedman]

I knew a girl back in my senior year of High School 1972, that had a brand new Capri as her parents must have had some money as nobody else had a new car at 17.  It was a neat small car in British racing green but had a little 4 cyl. engine and wasn’t really anything quick but I thought then if you would swap in a Buick 215 V 8 it would be really cool.
It did seem to handle the curves well and was very light and didn’t have any Ford or Mercury badges on it.
I never seen very many of them and probably haven’t seen one in the past 30 years that I can remember so they weren’t very popular.

jedman

[Mule 11]

I had a yellow Capri with a v-6 standard shift. Bought it cheap. It was also European build. Guy I bought it off of thought the engine was going out butt it just had a pin hole leak in the exhaust. I don’t recall what happened to it.