The Ford Capri is reborn as electric.This is what the original looked like

Coupé, only two doors, born in 1969, the Ford Capri left the scene in 1986.Much loved in England and Germany, today it is back revised and corrected.And, for the first time, electric.

To remember the first one Ford Capri today it is certainly the baby boomer generation, those who in 1969, the year of the first man on the Moon, of the legendary Festival of Woodstock and the first airplanes Boeing 747, they already had their license.When he first appears at Brussels car show the advertisement presents it as The car you always promised yourself, like the car of your dreams, the one you always promised yourself.

And indeed the success is remarkable.The numbers speak of more than 1.8 million Ford Capri sold, especially in England and Germany, where the German Ford plant in Cologne will produce the Capri for a period of 17 years and three generations, until 1986, when production ceases. Today the Ford Capri is reborn, from a coupé it becomes an SUV, but above all the Capri becomes electric. Electric only.

Ford Capri, the “pop” sports car that made the English fall in love

In England, where they call it Caprì, with the accent on the ì, it is a much loved car, for many a sports car but accessible, rewarding, capable of offering considerable driving pleasure for those years, especially the versions with the V6 engine, like the RS2600.In short, also thanks to that idea of ​​an accessible coupé, to the design inspired by the iconic Mustang, the Capri quickly earned a prominent place among the sports cars of Europe, with numerous victories also in the sporting field, on the Spa circuits, in Belgium and Zandvoort, in the Netherlands, where the Capri achieved important successes.

Today, almost forty years later, the Ford Capri is reborn as electric.Only a few shy features remain of the original coupé, traceable in the front and in the sloping rear, perhaps the only concrete homage to the coupé of the 1960s. But the mistake would be to look for affinities, better to focus on the differences.And if many have welcomed Capri's transition to electric as an important evolutionary step for the brand, the not easy "transition" (at least in name) from coupé to SUV, in England has opened a lively debate among fans of the brand.

Capri:a new, electrifying chapter in its history

In short, the Ford Capri was for England and Germany what the Fiat 124 Sport Coupé was for us, an accessible dream with an unforgettable design.“Today, that icon returns, more fascinating than ever, following in the footsteps of another Ford legend who reinvented himself:Mustang” quotes a Ford note.“And how Mustang Mach-E brought the myth of pony car in the electric age, so the new Capri is ready to amaze Europe, opening a new, electrifying chapter in its history".

A car that "today lives the present with courage and personality, becoming a sporty but elegant and almost impertinent electric SUV,” he commented Fabrizio Faltoni, CEO Ford Italy.The story restarts where it ended, from that factory Colony (now very advanced and transformed into a production hub dedicated to electric) where the Capri was produced until 1986.

Dimensions, autonomy, versions and prices

As anticipated, today the Ford Capri is a long electric SUV 4 meters and 63, 1.87 meters wide, weighing over 2 tons.Traction can be rear-wheel only or all-wheel drive one or two electric motors and powers up to 340 horsepower. Two batteries available for now, of 77 or 79 kWh, while a 52 kWh “basic” version will be added. The declared autonomy it ranges from 572 to 627 kilometres, while for charging times the company declares less than 30 minutes to go from 10 to 80 percent of the autonomy at the charging stations, up to 185 kW of power. The price list it starts from 42,750 for the basic version, on sale in 2025, while the version already available (the one with 286 horsepower) starts from 51,500 euros.With the debut of the Capri, there are now three electric models in the Ford price list: Mach-e, Explorer and, indeed, the new one Capri.