Promoted by Ford Europe as “The Car You Always Promised Yourself,” the Capri probably never escaped the label of a lesser Mustang sibling. Still, that doesn’t mean the model wasn’t a great sales ...

Journalists both local and national decended on Romeo, Michigan for a Ford event featuring all of the new 1979 cars, but two were more interesting than the rest: the Ford Mustang and Mercury Capri.

Henry Ford II attracted extraordinary attention last summer by suggesting, in a widely quoted speech, that upcoming American cars would drive the imports from our shores by 1981. Not likely, unless ...