{"id":53979,"date":"2020-11-04T16:05:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T16:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=53979"},"modified":"2020-11-11T07:32:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T07:32:34","slug":"ford-capri-rs-2600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/ford-capri-rs-2600\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Capri RS 2600"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the Capri, Ford succeeded in 1968 in a good counterattack against the Opel GT. However, the engines were rather tame. The 2300 GT and 2600 GT provided a remedy from the end of 1969. In Great Britain there was even a 3000 GT variant with 138 hp. But the crowning glory of the street-legal variants rolled out as a prototype at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1970 and from September on to the dealers. The Capri RS 2600 was now available as a homologation vehicle for use in rallies and the Class 2 of the European Touring Car Championship. It was initiated by race director Jochen Neerpasch, who was also in charge of the RS department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first time with fuel injection system<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ford used the well-known V6 engine with a displacement of 2.6 liters as the power source. This achieved more than 160 hp and 224 newtonmeters of torque through a long-stroke crankshaft and Kugelfischer injection. For insurance reasons, the official sales documents only showed 150 hp. These were transmitted to the rear wheels via a manual four-speed transmission with a short ratio, making the car more than 124 mph (200 kph) fast. The Capri RS 2600 was Ford’s first production car with mechanical fuel injection instead of carburetors.<\/p>\n\n\n

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