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[EMD]

I bought a Capri just like that yrs ago for £50 and it went straight through the MOT 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Ford should make a modern retro Capri like VW did the Beetle, Jag did the S Type and Triumph did the Bonneville. 

They'd sell like hotcakes! 

[Tick Tock]

Ford Vauxhall should make a modern retro Capri Omega like VW did the Beetle, Jag did the S Type and Triumph did the Bonneville. 

They'd sell like hotcakes! 

Corrected that for you 

[Nick W]

Ford should make a modern retro Capri like VW did the Beetle, Jag did the S Type and Triumph did the Bonneville. 

They'd sell like hotcakes! 

I can't stand 'modern retro' as a phrase, design intent or finished product. The best thing Jaguar have done is bin the 45 year-old badly calibrated photocopier 'styling' and actually design stylish, modern, fashionable cars like those they used to make their name.


Capris have been gone so long that the long bonnet, short tail, RWD GT coupe styling no longer applies, and only backward looking middle-aged men have any interest in them.

[ronnyd]

Thanks for all the info, the car i had been looking at went anyway, but i did have my worry hat on given a few ' issues ' the seller had mentioned. I will go on condition alone and if svc history is there then all the better. Just need to find the right one now, which is not so easy when the advert says ' mint ' but the MOT history on the DVLA site says something totally different !

Some owners/sellers idea of "mint" is often a hell of a lot of difference to what you actually see when you arrive to view it.

When applied to a car, mint simply means that most of the visible bits are in roughly the right place and you can deduce what the original colour was. Full Service History means that the handbook was dealer stamped, and they've a couple of bills dated 4 years ago. Inspection will show that one was for a puncture repair, and the other is for a different car. Any Inspection Welcome needs if done by a blind man added.


I could go on, but I bet we've all answered that sort of advert.


This was a bad use of £300 and a drive to Reading about 12 years ago:

Does the sold sign in the pic refer to the car or the house?

[Sir Tigger KC]

Ford should make a modern retro Capri like VW did the Beetle, Jag did the S Type and Triumph did the Bonneville. 

They'd sell like hotcakes! 

I can't stand 'modern retro' as a phrase, design intent or finished product. The best thing Jaguar have done is bin the 45 year-old badly calibrated photocopier 'styling' and actually design stylish, modern, fashionable cars like those they used to make their name.


Capris have been gone so long that the long bonnet, short tail, RWD GT coupe styling no longer applies, and only backward looking middle-aged men have any interest in them.

Ouch!     

I think a whole new generation of boy racers would love to hang their fluffy dice in a new Capri! 

[Nick W]

Ford should make a modern retro Capri like VW did the Beetle, Jag did the S Type and Triumph did the Bonneville. 

They'd sell like hotcakes! 

I can't stand 'modern retro' as a phrase, design intent or finished product. The best thing Jaguar have done is bin the 45 year-old badly calibrated photocopier 'styling' and actually design stylish, modern, fashionable cars like those they used to make their name.


Capris have been gone so long that the long bonnet, short tail, RWD GT coupe styling no longer applies, and only backward looking middle-aged men have any interest in them.

Ouch!   

I think a whole new generation of boy racers would love to hang their fluffy dice in a new Capri! 

It does include me!

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Wish I still had my MK1. Shite cars, but worth lots of nostalgia pounds. 

[Nick W]

I bought a Capri just like that yrs ago for £50 and it went straight through the MOT 

That one did after fitting a new mastercylinder. But John must have been hungover, forgotten his glasses, been in a hurry, and felt sorry for me. I've owned some crap cars, but that was easily the worst. Even breaking it was a mistake.

[EMD]

Capri is the only car i got stopped by the police in .. they had to
chase me a few miles in their lumbering 4x4  My tax was out 

[Doctor Gollum]

Capri is the only car i got stopped by the police in .. they had to
chase me a few miles in their lumbering 4x4  My tax was out 

Escalating a simple, civil charge to a criminal one is insane, especially when failing to stop usually includes dangerous driving

[EMD]

They just wanted to look at the car  I was taking it for mot 

[Doctor Gollum]

They just wanted to look at the car  I was taking it for mot 

Even less reason to run

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Us older folk can remember when it was standard practice to try and outrun the police. It was considered sport by both sides, and if you got away from them they would shrug and mutter about getting you next time. If they caught you, all concerned would have a bit of a laugh, and then they would make damn sure they found several offences to charge you with.
However, in Belfast  (where I grew up) some caution had to be exercised, as, if they had some reason to believe terrorist activity may be involved, they would just shoot you.
The world was a simpler place in those days. 

[Diamond Black Geezer]

They just wanted to look at the car  I was taking it for mot 

If you own a black Omega, always assume people want to look at it, in my experience 


To the level that when I got my naughtyticket I was kind of hoping they'd waive the fine purely on the grounds that the Police used to use Omegas.  I firmly beleive that if it'd been a 'propercopper' not a camera, they would have.