Ford Capri long-term test

The iconic Ford Capri has been reborn as a sleek electric SUV, but what’s it like to live with? Our used cars editor is finding out...

Updated08 October 2025

The car Ford Capri 77kWh RWD Extended Range Premium Run by Mark Pearson, used cars editor

Why it’s here To see if this new electric coupé SUV can cut it in a highly competitive class

Needs to Dispatch work and family life without any range anxiety issues and while coping with a wide variety of everyday family duties

Mileage 4977 List price £52,185 Target price £52,185 Price as tested £56,335 Dealer price now £30,360 Private price now £29,258 Test range 285 miles Official range 370 miles Running costs (excluding depreciation) £351 (charging)

8 October 2025 – We'll always have Capri

How do you measure success these days? In sales or profits, in likes or loves? If I were to measure the success of my Ford Capri, after six months and nearly 5000 miles with it, it would be by how many people have stopped me to look at it or talk about it.

You see, in my trade, I drive a lot of different cars, and only a few elicit any comment at all. In the Capri, though, I seemed incapable of going anywhere without someone pointing out to me that it was called a Capri and yet clearly looked nothing like one. Admittedly, these comments were nearly all made by men of a certain age who either owned or wanted to own the original Capri back in the day or whose father owned one, but these interruptions became so bad that wherever I went, I resorted to parking my car around the corner out of sight.

On this evidence, I began to think that the reuse of the name Capri was rather clever, even if most of those who questioned me thought applying the moniker to an electric SUV, even an electric coupé SUV, was an affront to history.

Times move on, though, and here in the modern world, the Capri certainly fulfilled my ambitions for it. It might be electric rather than petrol-powered and tall rather than low, but its performance and its steering and handling would have put an original Capri to shame, as would its safety kit and refinement.

Even so, there were a couple of dynamic issues. Firstly, the initial response to the brake pedal left something to be desired, with a long travel before any stopping started and then a rather non-linear response after that.

The other fly dynamically was the ride quality. The Capri has firm suspension that gives it a rather unsettled ride, although once again, in comparison with others in this class, most notably the Cupra Tavascan, I can only bracket it somewhere on a scale between occasionally bumpy and a little choppy rather than downright bad.

Despite the punters’ obvious interest in it, I can’t declare the Capri particularly sexy to look at, in my opinion, but that shape does conceal an impressively large interior space. There was plenty of room up front, loads of storage space and easily enough leg and head room for my grown-up daughters in the back. What’s more, the boot coped admirably with a family’s worth of luggage for both a short break and a more prolonged summer holiday here in the UK.

Another plus point was efficiency. In my time with it, it averaged 3.7 miles per kWh, which equates to an overall range of around 285 miles. I had highs of 4.4 miles per kWh on one particular motorway journey, and lows of around 3.1 miles per kWh on shorter trips to the supermarket or tip or similar. That’s not bad going overall for something so capacious.

However, just as I was growing impressed by it, the Capri let me down. A warning sign on the dashboard advised me of a 12V error. I called Ford Assist and arranged for someone from the AA to come and take a look. Alas, he couldn’t fix the issue, which he said was that the Capri’s main big battery, the one that drives the car, wasn’t charging up the smaller 12V battery.

That meant I had to wait two more days for the Capri to be towed to my nearest Ford dealer for a new 12V battery. Two further days later, I picked it up and all was well, but had I been going anywhere other than on a local errand when the Capri failed to start, I would have been annoyed to have been left stranded for five days.

That hiccup aside, and those doubts about the ride and the brakes, I have to admit I liked the Capri. I liked the driving position. I liked the spacious interior, especially the large touchscreen infotainment system.

Indeed, the Capri's only real problem seems to be the number of rivals it has. And compared with those, I’d have to admit the Audi Q4 e-tron and Hyundai Ioniq 5 are both quieter and more sophisticated, and the Genesis GV60 and Kia EV6 are both more polished to drive.

Therein lies the crux. Buying any of these electric SUVs is still a fairly expensive prospect, and, much as I admired the Capri, if I were buying this type of car again, I can’t be sure my money would go Ford’s way.

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