Ford’s Capri slaps one other previous title on a brand new EV

Ford Europe design director Amko Leenarts says the look follows an imagined evolution of the Capri since manufacturing led to 1986, as impressed by the rising recognition of SUVs.

This beefier Capri follows Ford’s different fashionable takes on basic nameplates, together with the Mustang, which grew to become an electrical SUV, and the Maverick, which ended up as a pickup truck.

It would are available in rear-wheel and all-wheel-drive extended-range configurations and a “premium” trim possibility for every. Ford is promising a most vary of 627km (about 390 miles) on a single cost for the extended-range RWD mannequin, based mostly on European WLTP estimates.

It’s the second mannequin constructed on Volkswagen’s MEB electrical automobile platform, following the Explorer EV that launched in Europe final yr and in addition has no plans for a US launch. The Capri and Explorer have extraordinarily comparable specs that line up with the Volkswagen EVs they share platforms with (ID.5 and ID.4, respectively). Nonetheless, the Capri has a barely sportier look that may make it extra of a center possibility amid Ford’s lineup with the Explorer and Mustang Mach-E.