• By Murilee Martin
    Jun 14, 2007 2:30 PM 676
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    #1981

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    It's Built By Ford And It Goes Like (KABOOM)!

    In 1981, the year of this ad, the car sold as the "Capri" in the States was a Mercury Fox Mustang clone. Back in the UK, however, the venerable Ford Capri was still available, and it came with a 2.8-liter V6 that gave it a not-too-bad-for-1981 0-60 time of 7.8 seconds. Check out those painfully-80s graphics! – Murilee Martin

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