Ranked: Ford's most iconic South African performance models
The Capri Perana was dominant in South Africa's Group 5 racing.As Ford South Africa ratchets up to 100 years, the country's oldest automaker to have set up local manufacturing has just compiled and released what it considers to be some of its most iconic performance metal over the years, many of them unique to South Africa.Was it the fact that Ford nonchalantly shoehorned a Mustang 5.
Under the long bonnet, its 5.0-litre V8 imbued the two-door body with a favourable power-to-weight ratio; 210kW and 407Nm launched a kerb weight of 1 100kg. With around 500 cars being produced, a genuine Capri Perana is rising in value.For the first time, South African buyers gained straightforward access into American muscle car culture where they could experience the increasingly rare recipe, which saw a big normally aspirated V8 mated to rear-wheel drive.
To this day, the Mustang is considered the world's best-selling sports car, and its future has just been cemented with an all-new model and racier Dark Horse variant.From 2019, the Ranger Raptor took off-road performance to new levels, specifically in markets where the F-150 Raptor didn't reach. With a 2.
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