I would like to dedicate my first post in this blog to this very interesting English car – Ford Consul Capri.
Consul Capri was introduced to English public in year 1961. It was proclaimed as the “first personal car from Ford of Great Britain” – basically Consul Capri is a 2-doors coupe version of of the Ford Classic saloon, the first British Ford model. It was designed by Roy Brown, the designer of notorious Edsel model. During the construction and designing, Consul Capri had an internal name “Sunbird”, which meant that it is some kind of hybrid of Ford Thunderbird and the Sunliner.
The vehicle was quit unusual for that time because of such features like disc brakes, four headlights, variable speed wipers, dimming dashboard lights, and a cigar lighter. Consul Capri was equipped with 1340 cc Straight-4 ohv engine, which was replaced in August 1962 by its enhanced variant with 1498 cc.
The first 200 Capris were hand-made left-hand-drive cars for continental Europe. During all the lifetime only 500 cars were sold. Their production was to expensive and retail price was rather high too. Ford Consul Capri was discontinued in July 1964 – after 2,5 years of production only.
Just for you to know, the Consul Capri was produced in over 17.000 cars and some 1800GT models
Actually Ford made over 18,000 Consul Capri’s of which 2002 were GT models.
Sounds better than my figures. Cheers
the consul capri and classic was not desighned by roy brown it was done by my buddy colin neale!
Mine is a 1964 Capri 1500 Pre crossflow. 46 years old and I love her. Everytime I take her out which is at least 4 times a week people come up to me admiring her and asking if she is for sale.
The car was so ahead of it’s time it was a total disaster for sales. After they stopped making them Brits were still buying Austin A40′s and Morris 1000′s till 1971. How sad was that!!
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