It’s sad to lose an iconic brand, but it’s shocking to see brands once at the top of their games disappear almost overnight. Here are five brands I’d like to see return.

The third-generation Mustang made history with Ford's successful Fox platform, but the prancing pony wasn't the only badge to enjoy Fox underpinnings.

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.

Originally, Muscat designed a convertible Mustang, but after Ford executives directed him to take up the idea with Mercury, a new donor car, the Capri ... personal taste. Like many other Mercury ...

In North America, it was sold with the same name but under the Mercury brand, wearing four round headlights ... a proper restoration is certainly possible. Like the Mustang, part of the Capri’s appeal ...

Very unusually, the third-generation Mercury Capri had no connection with any Ford-branded vehicle built in the US. Like the first of its line (but not the Mustang-based second), it was imported ...

It's been almost four years since Ford debuted the Mustang Mach-E and people still ... It's important to point out the Capri, like the all-electric Explorer with which it shares its platform ...

Like the Mustang, the Capri was a sexier version ... Launched in the US under its own Capri brand, the coupe was later renamed Mercury Capri and lasted until 1978. “We prefer the Capri ...

Like a lot of automakers ... debates about whether the Ford Mustang Mach-E is a "real Mustang" or not. And I think the end result will be the same with the Capri: it won't matter.

The Capri name has appeared on a couple ... but it also ended up on a Mercury-badged version of the Fox Body Mustang in the U.S., as well as a little convertible co-developed with Mazda and ...

Ford's Capri, once associated with the Mustang, is now back as an ... being marketed exclusively through Lincoln-Mercury dealers. Partnerships like this enable far greater economies of scale ...