Up before dawn for a photo shoot in Colombo\’s Independence Square, a nice early Eighties Ford Capri mk iii was the last thing I expected to find after I had finished, never mind a daily driver with a bike rack on the back.

If I was going to have a collision I\’d rather be in the Merc and certainly panel gaps and build quality are in a different universe, but gosh doesn\’t it look ugly and ill-proportioned compared to the simple lines of the Capri.  A real reminder of how big and heavy cars have come through crash legislation, noise, vibration and harshness refinement, and simply a desire for cars to be ever larger.  The rolling circumference of the Capri\’s tyres isn\’t much different to just the alloy wheels on the E Class.

Steve