1971 Mercury Capri, this is one amazing vehicle. It beat out Jaguar's several year running No.1 import car title. It was manufactured as a semi-concept car in Germany to German engineering standards, then imported with left hand steering to U.S. Beautiful wood and leather interior full chrome metal bumpers and nice classic "Ford" lines accenting it's arrow dynamic exterior.
Mine was Dark sub-metallic Green The 6 cyl had been pulled and replaced with a souped up 2000 4cyl that loved to run high revs.
The ability to turn this car 90 degrees at high speed by downshifting while braking from 4th to 3rd and the power out by shifting to second and winding it out you could take a right angle corner at about 45mph. The drift was perfect, it never wanted to go backwards. It would always turn full sideways and reamain in a controlable slide that could be corrected even @ 65-70 mph.
Truly amazing car...... BtW it was on stock wheels with Perelli (G/T?) tires that had side tread all the way up almost to the rim.
They would roll under but never lost traction or rolled off the rims.
The speed and agility of this little screamer made it "uncatchable!"
My second choice is btw is the 76 Dodge diplomat police car. They are fast and agile and handle well too, just not quite as fast as that mercury =)