As artificial intelligence becomes more advanced, it gets more difficult to discern what’s real content and what’s generative nonsense, particularly in the automotive corner of the internet. Ford Authority is on a mission to provide a dose of reality to fans of The Blue Oval who might get their hopes up because of AI generated content that surfaces on the first page of search engines, and this time, we’re checking in to assure you that the 2026 Ford Capri is just complete misinformation.
Google’s AI-generated overview stumbles when you search “2026 Ford Capri.” The truth is there will be a 2026 Ford Capri out there in the near future, but it’s a far cry from the coupe of decades past that misled Blue Oval enthusiasts are probably hoping for. The Ford Capri, which is not sold in the U.S., is an all-electric crossover underpinned by Volkswagen’s MEB platform.
The AI overview correctly identifies the 2026 Ford Capri as an electric vehicle. It even points out that it rides on a Volkswagen-built platform, and that it’s offered with a choice of two powertrains. However, once readers pick through the truth, they’re hit with a dose of AI-generated wishful thinking that suggests the 2026 Capri will be offered as a V8 powerhouse.
We don’t think we need to say it, but that’s nowhere close to being true. As previously noted, the real-world Ford Capri is an all-electric crossover designed for the European market. Even if it were offered in the U.S., it wouldn’t feature a V8 engine, but rather align with its EV counterpart abroad. It’s far from a gas-guzzling throwback to the classic model of decades past.
That seems to be a trend. Someone with the right keywords and access to an AI language model or picture generator tells said AI to drum up a modern rendition of retired Ford models, like the 2026 Ford Fiesta and the 2026 Ford Escort – both of which are fake news.
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This means that Ford will continue producing for 2026 the atrocity they are producing today and that they call Capri. Idiots is what Ford wants in making them believe that the actual atrocity they call Capri is a Capri. The same case with the atrocity Ford calls Mach-e where Ford wants idiots that believe that the atrocity they call Mach-e is a Mustang.
The Idiots at Ford should know that the Mercury Capri in the 1970’s was sold here in the US.
It was a Mustang look alike.
Not a true Capri!
Farley keeps pushing EV’s that know one wants!
Bolts will have the whole market unless Ford starts building some small EVs here! I don’t care what they call them, Capri, Fairlane, or Edsel.
Certainly one of the worst styled EV’s on the market. Although consistent with Ford’s efforts of late.
I like it better than i3, Leaf, all Teslas, and many others.
Can not believe what this dxxx farley did to the company I devoted 26 years of my life to.
Recently read a article where Farley Says that the Chinese vehicles are better quality than Ford! My question is if the CEO says that why is HE STILL THE CEO. ANSWER THAT BILL FORD!!!!
The first step is admitting you have a problem.