i think the value price lays down to fords fault more so than the car itself
had ford done thses engines up bit more and they done well at bathurst and other races the value would of gone thru the roof ..
 
fords concentrated more on there x range of muscle cars than anything else .. in australia anyway ,,
 
capri's are better known overseas they did really well in there races ...
had they put better heads bigger valves cam carby etc here for race purpose these things would of been hard to beat
even if they made the v8 capri's like basil green cars prices of these cars would have gone thru the roof ...
 
to me that was there  biggest mistake not doing or allowing a aus version of the basil green v8 perana's they would of ****ted over the comp

Ford committed to the TC Cortina of the day and shoe-horned the Falcon 200 and 250 straight sixes into them and the later TD, TE & TF models. They were then a good second string to the Falcons of the day. The Capri wasn't a high volume seller here, with less than 15,000 units sold, all told, in 4 years. The Capri would have required Ford Australia to throw way too much money at it and for no real gain at all and the local content still only reached around 40%, not nearly enough! Sad story, but true!

capri values:
 
1989: 1600 pastel blue:first car $3,000
 
2016:same car, with your youngest daughter shrinking with embarrassment from all the attention and thumbs up the capri gets doing the sunday afternoon cruise:priceless
 
(also... Dad, what is this handle for?.... oh cool, it winds the window down...)
Then explain no iPhone jack, no Bluetooth, gps, airbag, aircond...powersteering,low back buckets,etc etc etc