10% off your first order — create a free account

Create free account
✓ 14-day returns ✓ Hand-checked before dispatch ✓ Secure checkout
My account

Ford Capri Turbo Group 5 Red Minichamps 1:18

Sold out
Ford Capri Turbo Group 5 Red Minichamps 1:18 100798600 Diecast
1 / 8
Minichamps' 1:18 diecast Ford Capri Turbo captures the flared, turbocharged Group 5 silhouette racer that ran in German touring car competition at the end of the 1970s. Bold arches and a boxy rear wing set it apart from any road-going Capri. Finished in red, it suits a 1970s European touring car shelf.
Ford Capri Turbo Group 5 Red Minichamps 1:18
Current price: £122.00
Out of production

This model is currently sold out. Enter your email and we'll let you know when it's back in stock.

Browse Ford models
Pay securely with
Specifications
Car Brand
Ford
Model Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
100798600
Genuine articles Sourced from manufacturers
5-layer carton Foam-filled interior
Hassle-free returns 14-day no-quibble returns
Secure payment Bank-level encryption

About the Ford Capri Turbo Group 5 Red Minichamps 1:18

TL;DR: This Minichamps 1:18 diecast reproduces the Ford Capri Turbo in Group 5 silhouette specification, the flared, turbocharged racer built for late-1970s German touring car competition. Finished in red, it captures the era's wild aerodynamic add-ons on a road car silhouette rather than the standard production Capri.

Group 5 rules in the late 1970s allowed almost anything bolted onto a road car's silhouette, and few subjects show that better than the Ford Capri Turbo. This 1:18 diecast puts that transformation on a shelf.

A Silhouette Racer Built for Wide Arches

Group 5 cars kept only the roofline and general outline of a production body, and everything else was fair game: flared wheel arches wide enough to cover racing tyres, a deep front splitter, and a rear wing that no showroom Capri ever wore. Minichamps' 1:18 diecast reproduces those proportions faithfully, and the scale is large enough to show off the arch flares and vents that make this Capri look nothing like the coupe it was based on. The zinc alloy body gives the model real weight, and the red paintwork is laid on with the even coverage that period-liveried touring cars need to read correctly on a shelf. At this scale, the model's stance, low and wide over oversized wheels, does more to sell the Group 5 story than any single panel detail could.

Ford's Capri in German Touring Car Racing

Zakspeed built turbocharged Capris for the German Racing Championship in the late 1970s, and the Capri Turbo Group 5 became one of the era's signature silhouette racers, its wild bodywork wrapped around a production-derived shell that still carried the Capri's basic road-car identity underneath. That contrast between a familiar shape and an unfamiliar level of aggression is exactly what makes Group 5 cars interesting to collect: they sit between road car and pure racer, closer kin to a rally Group B monster than to a showroom coupe. Displayed next to other 1970s silhouette racers, the Capri Turbo holds its own as one of the more extreme examples of the formula, and its diecast weight and scale make it a satisfying anchor piece for a touring car theme built around that decade's regulations.

Same marque, same scale

Collectors also bought

Browse all 1:18

10% off your first order

Create a free account and claim 10% off your first order — from hundreds of collectible 1:18, 1:43 and 1:12 models by Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and more.

Create free account Browse the collection
Collectible 1:18 scale Porsche model on a clean studio backdrop — Models118 first-order offer
0