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Carnut: this one should be in your wheelhouse.
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on June 26, 2010, 06:48:58 AMCarnut: this one should be in your wheelhouse. I've spent far too much time searching for this one already...I thought I would get there easily with the info so far but can't find any reference to it.Those wheels looks very Giugiaro 70's but can't find a connection to any Italian styling house.I've got to admit: I'm stumped!
Capricorn - the car that never wasIN the petrol crisis days of the late '70s and early '80s, Ford was ‘having a few bob each way’ on the design for the XD Falcon replacement. In a case of bad timing, it had introduced the full-size XD at the same time as Holden had ‘downsized’ with the new Commodore.Ford’s engineers and stylists set about designing a smaller ‘Commodore-sized’ Falcon in both sedan and hatchback styles.Code-named ‘Capricorn’, the car reached full clay and fibreglass model stage. The interior had been designed and, by late 1981, all it needed was final approval before going to the next stage of driveable prototypes.At the same time, Ford was revamping the Falcon range of engines and introduced the alloy head and other improvements that kept the Falcon’s fuel economy on a par with the smaller Commodore. Falcon sales soared, Ford became No.1 in the market place and the Capricorn died!
