These sketches reveal how Ford imagines the Capri evolved into an SUV

The Ford Capri is back, and – surprise! – it’s an SUV-crossover thing. A big SUV-crossover thing. One spun off the Volkswagen ID.5, powered by electricity, and priced, from launch, at £48k.

Some of you will remember the original Ford Capri and some of you will have some vague knowledge of it (not least because Ford sold 400,000 in the first two years and shifted 1.8m between 1969 and 1986). Heck, some of you won’t have the foggiest.

The original Ford Capri was of course, very much not an SUV-crossover thing. How then, did one of Britain’s most recognisable shapes morph from desirable, low-slung coupe to socking-great SUV?

Here, in sketch form, is the way Ford imagines the Capri would have evolved, had it stayed in continuous production beyond 1986. We know this because Ford has said as much.

“The new all-electric Capri is exactly how the iconic sports coupe would have evolved had it stayed in continuous production.”

So take a trip down an imaginary memory lane (aren’t all memory lanes imaginary?) charting the imaginary life of one of Ford’s stone-cold classics.

Up next: a timeline of how the Ford Model T evolved into a pick-up had it stayed in continuous production, no doubt.