Dr. Detroit Gets Scientific: 1982 Mercury Capri Originally published in the July 1989 issue of Hot Rod magazine HOT ROD StaffWriterJan 01, 2023 See All 22 Photos ...

The Capri – later renamed as the Mercury Capri – was a nameplate used by the Lincoln-Mercury division of Ford Motor Company between 1970 and 1994 across three generations in North America.

Over the years, the Ford Motor Company has used the Capri name on multiple cars, starting with a Lincoln in the 1950s, then under the Mercury marque from the end of the '60s through the '90s.

The later Mercury Capri, based on the Fox-body Mustang, was an entirely different vehicle, sharing essentially just the name with the first-generation Capri; there also was weird front-drive Miata ...

It appears the engine in this Capri is the non-turbocharged 2.3-liter four-cylinder engine most commonly found in the Ford Fairmont and Mercury Zephyr, as well as the Mustang, of course.

The Mercury Capri ASC/McLaren is a truly obscure 1980s performance car. Unless you have personal experience with one, you probably forgot about it, or never knew it existed in the first place.

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The Capri was sold in the United States beginning in April 1970 as a Mercury model, though the Mercury nameplate never appeared on the car. In Europe, the Capri was about as popular as the Mustang ...

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.

As the Capri was originally intended to be smaller than the Mustang, so, too, were its engine choices. The Mercury version was offered with a choice of four-cylinder and V6 engines, however, as a ...