Automotive fanatics like to get upset when a model reuses an iconic title on a automobile that isn’t precisely the identical as the unique, and now y’all have one other alternative with the brand new Ford Capri. The place the unique Capri was a gas-powered two-door sports activities coupe bought in Europe by means of three generations between 1968 and 1986, the brand new Capri is an electrical four-door crossover sedan factor that makes use of Volkswagen underpinnings. Received your pitchforks out but?
I wasn’t a fan of the brand new Capri once I first noticed leaked pictures, but it surely’s beginning to develop on me. The shape issue is similar to the Polestar 2 — the Capri seems to be like a sedan in profile, but it surely has a raised journey peak and physique cladding to cover the battery heft, a sloping liftback hatch within the rear, and bluff overhangs. At 182.4 inches lengthy the Capri is a pair inches shorter than a Mustang Mach-E, and it’s about the identical peak and width.
The rounded D-pillar and quarter window, black A-pillar, quad LED headlights and taillights, black panel “grille” are all callbacks to the outdated Capris, and there are another cool particulars just like the Capri title stamped into the entrance bumper. Ford says “the brand new all-electric Capri is the automobile the long-lasting sports activities coupe was destined to turn out to be. No different household EV has heritage like this.” I’m not so positive about that, but it surely’s extra of a connection than the Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross has to its namesake.
Like the Europe-only Ford Explorer EV, the Capri is predicated on VW’s MEB platform. The rear-wheel-drive base mannequin has a 77-kWh battery pack and a single electrical motor on the rear wheel placing out 282 horsepower and 402 pound-feet of torque, which sends the automobile to 62 mph in a good 6.4 seconds. The all-wheel-drive Capri has a 79-kWh battery, with an electrical motor at every axle placing out a complete of 335 hp and a 0-to-62-mph time that drops to five.3 seconds. (Ford doesn’t give a mixed torque determine, solely saying that the entrance motor makes 99 lb-ft.)
Ford says the single-motor Capri has a variety of 390 miles on the European WLTP cycle, whereas the dual-motor automobile will go 368 miles. Cost occasions are disappointingly gradual, although. The rear-drive Capri can cost at as much as 135 kW, ok to go from 10 to 80 % in 28 minutes, and the AWD mannequin can cost at as much as 185 kW for a 26-minute 10-to-80-percent cost.
The Capri’s inside seems to be just about an identical to the Explorer EV’s, although sport seats with built-in headrests and a squircle-shaped steering wheel are distinctive to the Capri. The vertically oriented 14.6-inch central touchscreen can slide ahead to disclose a lockable cubby gap, and a “MegaConsole” below the entrance armrest holds over half a cubic foot of stuff. A soundbar sits on the high of the dashboard, and the motive force additionally will get a 5-inch digital gauge cluster display.
Commonplace options embrace a massaging drivers seat (apparently the passenger is shit outta luck on that entrance), a heated steering wheel, dual-zone computerized local weather management, navigation and keyless entry. You may get the Capri with a hands-free tailgate, a panoramic sunroof, ambient lighting, a B&O sound system and different niceties. Tons of driver-assist options come normal, too, however you must pay further for a 360-degree digital camera, parking help and lane centering.
The Capri will enter manufacturing in Cologne, Germany, alongside the Explorer EV, with deliveries set to begin in just a few months. Within the UK the Capri prices about £5,000 greater than a Mustang Mach-E and round £2,000 greater than the Explorer EV, which can be equally sized.
