Ford Capri beats Opel, Fiat and Daf in the everyman coupé comparison test
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Suppose you have You have 7000 marks in the bank and a soft spot in your heart for coupés, how can you combine the one with the other? Well, with 7000 Marks you are a coupé candidate who is by no means spared the agony of choice! How would you like it? Sporty, automatic, family-friendly, rally-like? You can have it all in the variants we want to present here... However, in the selection of Fiat 850 Coupé, DAF 55 Coupé, Opel Rallye Kadett and Ford Capri tested, the elegant and sporty Capri comes out on top. The details can be found in the comparison test from 1969.
This article contains the following chapters
- Line
- Performance
- Chassis
- 1st place
- Comfort
- Conclusion
Estimated reading time: 7min
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Suppose you have You have 7000 marks in the bank and a soft spot in your heart for coupés, how can you combine the one with the other? Well, with 7000 Marks you are a coupé candidate who is by no means spared the agony of choice! How would you like it? Sporty, automatic, family-friendly, rally-like? You can have it all in the variants we want to present here... The sportiest and cheapest is the Fiat 850 Coupé: with it you save a thousand of your 7000 marks and still drive away from the rest of the competition. Where is the agony of choice? Put your finger on it, we'll take it! Oh, so you have a family, and you'd actually have to deny yourself a coupé? We can help you too! However, the family costs money, and after the purchase you will only have seven marks left of the 7000 marks. The new Ford Capri has turned out just as we predicted when it was launched: It's becoming a bestseller, because of its family-friendliness and because of its price.
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