Simon Light’s heavily modified Ford Capri V8 has been nearly 40 years ... another 100bhp in his quest to keep up with the V8-powered Rover SD1s. “The engines had to be visibly standard ...

There’s a new electric Ford SUV on the block ... the folk in the British Isles were denied its V8-y charm, and instead got… the Capri. It cut a fine figure, and over its life came with ...

There you go, then,’ said Nathan Bovingdon as he handed me the keys to the Capri in the workshop at ... Turns out the timing markings on the big-capacity Rover V8s built by TVR Power in Coventry ...

Arse. With as much nonchalance as I could muster I filled up with fuel while the Capri made a hot puddle. By the time I’d paid and rolled it to the air and water bay, it had stopped hissing.