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 views?

Well, 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 stopped me to look at and talk about it.

You see, in my trade, I drive a lot of different cars, and only a few attract questions from friends and family, let alone total strangers. In this one, though, I seemed incapable of going anywhere without someone asking whether this was really a new Capri.

Admittedly, these comments were largely 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 they became so frequent that when I was in a hurry I sometimes resorted to parking my car around the corner out of sight.

Still, on this evidence I began to think that the reuse of the Capri name is actually rather clever, even if some of those who questioned me thought applying the moniker to an electric SUV – even an electric coupé SUV – was an affront to history. After all, it’s better to polarise than be ignored, right?

Besides, times move on, 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, steering and body control put the original Capri to shame – as does its refinement.

That said, I still had a couple of complaints about the driving experience, with one of those related to the brakes. The reaction to depressing the pedal left something to be desired, with a long travel before any stopping started, followed by a rather non-linear response that made it hard to be smooth.

The other fly in the dynamic ointment was ride quality. The Capri has firm suspension that gives it a rather unsettled nature, although compared with some rivals – 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.

More positively, despite being a coupé SUV with a plunging roofline, the Capri conceals an impressively large interior. There was plenty of room up front, loads of storage cubbies 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. I averaged 3.7 miles per kWh, which equates to a real-world 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 similar. But even that’s not bad going for something so capacious.

Unfortunately, just as I was growing fond of it, the Capri let me down. A warning sign on the dashboard advised me of a 12V error. I called Ford Assist, who 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 battery – the one that drives the car – wasn’t charging up the smaller 12V one.

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 planning anything more than local errands when when the Capri failed to start, I would have been seriously annoyed to have been left without a working car for five days.

Overall, though, I have to admit I liked the Capri. Not only did it handle well and meet all my practicality requirements, but I found the driving position comfortable and the large touchscreen infotainment system easy to use.

Indeed, the Capri's biggest problem isn’t something that it does badly itself, but the strength of the competition. For the same sort of money you could have an Audi Q4 e-tron, a Hyundai Ioniq 5, a Genesis GV60, a Kia EV6… the list goes on and on.

I’d have to say all four of the alternatives above are better all-rounders. But, then again, would any of them attract anything like the attention that the Capri does? Somehow I doubt it.

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