The Professionals-Bodies 3.0s Capri vs Triumph 2500

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@CastrolHondaSP2 Ай бұрын

I used to love watching this show when I was a kid. 👌😎 My Dad was a Traffic cop at the time and would regularly rock up in a BMW528i for his break time. He had previously drove the Triumph as well but the BMW apparently was on another level performance wise. RIP Sgt Peter Mawdsley. ❤️

@russell-di8js Ай бұрын

We played the professionals at school & lord help the 3rd lad wanting to play cos they were Cowley!!!

@MrDREWASIDE 25 күн бұрын

How you doing drew? It's the other drew from up in Carlisle mate😂😂😂😂

@CastrolHondaSP2 25 күн бұрын

@@MrDREWASIDE I'm very well thank you buddy. How's life treating you?

@leonshackleford9585 28 күн бұрын

R.I.P Lewis Collins From CI5 Professionals Bodie You Was a True Legend & Will Always Be Remembered as a True Legend Gentleman

@oldtopgearsaab1 Ай бұрын

See Ford, now this IS a proper Capri.... not that yellow crap VW that you have called the Capri in 2024!

@dbkingg99 26 күн бұрын

Just as bad as making an SUV and calling it a 'mustang'

@oldtopgearsaab1 25 күн бұрын

@@dbkingg99 exactly, or Puma, or even Cougar (silly spelling or not). What a stupid thing to do! What's next; a rebadged, large luxury VW/Audi SUV EV or van that Ford will likely name as the 'GT40' 😂

@snubbii9276 26 күн бұрын

Luvved how Bodie took every opportunity every episode to do a roll and shoot. Top notch entertainment and one if the biggest reasons for the popularity of the Capri IMHO

@britishcomposers 2 жыл бұрын

Fuel injected Triumph 2.5PI, as used by the Met Police. Super fast when the injection system is properly set up. Capable in excess of 125mph with manual/overdrive running on five star fuel and 0-60 in just under 8 seconds. 80-100 in direct top simply unmatched by any saloon of the day except an XJ12 or Double Six. All stats given in the magazines get the performance of this model wrong. Twin carb versions were breathlessly fussy above 3,700 rpm on what is an unusually long stroke engine, but with the early pre- '73 PI system, the engine revs smoothly right up to the 5,850 rpm red-line when on-song; usually on a hot, late afternoon in the summer. Best car I ever owned.

@Mk7adxm 2 жыл бұрын

@@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206 the cars in this video are a 1978 Ford Capri 3.0 S, and a 1971 Triumph 2500 PI, the Capri being 44 years old and the triumph 51 years old. So yes your modern car will be faster than cars that are 44 and 50 years old, what’s your point? Cars in the future will be faster than your fiesta.

@adamw2911 2 жыл бұрын

@@Mk7adxm My current sober Lexus GS will leave my beloved old 83 Cavalier SRi for dead. Yet that thing seemed so much quicker at the time! Agreed...you can't compare different generations for performance at all. Both the Ford and the Triumph were two of the fastest cars on the market at the time...

@evanoconnell9448 10 ай бұрын

Yeh my dad used to race one. A mk1. 2.5pi and he towled up the pack. I have a photo of him overtaking some turbo porche. He was quite proud of the car that day. Early on in his racing it there really wasnt a car in his class that could go up against the triumph on the track.

@fr.michaelwood4006 Ай бұрын

I had two of them

@Markcain268 Ай бұрын

So, faster than the much lighter and more powerful triumph tr6.

@2085x Ай бұрын

I had a Ford Capri 3.0s in JPS colours, in the day a Brilliant car, and the Professional's brilliant tv drama.

@liverpoolscottish6430 Ай бұрын

They didn't make a 3.0 S in JPS colours. They were two separate models.

@2085x Ай бұрын

@@liverpoolscottish6430 talking rubbish mate, I had one so I should know, they were rear .

@2085x Ай бұрын

@@liverpoolscottish6430 ford capri 3.0s mk2 JPS 1978, do your research, maybe your not old enough.

@bonjovi1612 Ай бұрын

Ah good old Commander Straker! RIP Ed.

@pmonkeydmonkey8148 21 күн бұрын

Klaus Hergersheimer from G section 😊

@daviebevan 26 күн бұрын

That Capri still looks as good today as it did in the 70s. The new electric Capri, it will never sell as good as the 1970s version

@yarcoPenfold Ай бұрын

Owned two triumph 2500s back in my 20s. Loved the speed sound and style over the ford's of my boy racer days.

@edwardwilliammorris1340 Ай бұрын

Both beautiful cars from history that crap all over modern cars for style ♥️

@efnissien Ай бұрын

Real cars, the Granada, the TR7, the Triumph 2500, the Capri - when cars had character. Christ even the fucking Allegro at least had the decency to at least look 'different'.

@jjohnson-stoker 27 күн бұрын

Good point, at the time they were junkers Now they get attention.

@efnissien 26 күн бұрын

@@jjohnson-stoker Yeah, the old 'All agrro' with it's "Square steering wheel" that everyone laughed at. But several luxury roadsters now have the same. Pretty much everyone in the '70's or '80's could name a character just by his car. Ian Ogilvy's 'Simon Templar' in 'The Saint' with his white Jaguar XJS, Bodie with his Capri, Doyle with his TR7, The Sweeny with their For Granada, there was also the obligatory 'S-type jag' that was the villain's get away car.

@theostickley6492 19 күн бұрын

The TR7 was a bag of shite. One of the most unreliable cars that i ever had. Was originally supposed to have the 16 valve dolly sprint set up. Instead BL opted for 8 valve..

@efnissien 18 күн бұрын

@@theostickley6492 It was also fucked up by a load of US safety specs (such as a having to have a hard top) that made it a moose of a car.

@andreashellwig9863 27 күн бұрын

I loved watching the series. Here in Germany it was called "Die Profis" and in the '80s I had the rare opportunity to talk to Lewis in Bochum, where he announced his movie "Das Kommando".

@ricopimento 27 күн бұрын

AKA "Who Dares Wins".

@johndrake2729 3 жыл бұрын

The second car chase was even more thrilling. Love it.

@Mk7adxm 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed, can’t beat em.

@justinjameswiddicombe8766 Жыл бұрын

Both action-packed car chase sequences featured here were actually from the same episode of The Professionals titled Man Without a Past. The Ford Capri driven by Bodie (portrayed by the late Lewis Collins) is quite a cool car. The very same incidental music was used on both these action-packed car chase sequences of the Man Without a Past episode of The Professionals. An American plainclothes FBI officer (portrayed by the late Ed Bishop) was behind the wheel of a Triumph 2000 or 2500 sedan. I like watching these 2 action-packed car car chase scenes. Cool stuff.

@crg1819 Жыл бұрын

Seen this episode a few times, never clicked on it was Commander Straker until I read your comment 😂

@davidfarmer2049 11 ай бұрын

Triumph 2000 I think. Even a 2.5 pi wouldnt keep up with a 3lt capri.

@2000mk1 10 ай бұрын

@@davidfarmer2049 It's a 2.5 Pi and a well sorted one would eat the Capri for breakfast !!

@davidfarmer2049 10 ай бұрын

@@2000mk1 ok........... peace.

@jcc1451 Ай бұрын

What a great looking car the capris were. I used to get a lift to work in one when I was an apprentice.

@laurelgreentriumph Жыл бұрын

I can't believe those Rostyle wheel trims stayed on the Triumph PI, mine used to come off the Vitesse running over cats eyes!

@zakelwe Жыл бұрын

Both Capris used in the series are currently up for sale at Silverstone auctions according to Harrys garage One careful owner, never been raced...

@knoxyish Ай бұрын

they can stay there !!!

@cologne2792 Ай бұрын

£186,000 for the two. Not bad.

@Spica1000 16 күн бұрын

For a 3 litre engine under 140 BHP, well, you certainly can tell it was a last century car! Mind, it was quite a force to reckoned with back in the day though! Think the professionals was an excellent promotion for this car Very similar to what the Italian Job did for the mini Cooper!

@Nick_Turpin 4 жыл бұрын

I had a white 79 3.0 S years ago in the mid 80s .. loved it.

@Mk7adxm 4 жыл бұрын

Can’t beat a 3.0 Capri, my dads had a 3.0 Ghia mk2, and several mk3 2.0 S, and a 2.8i but never a 3.0S, also I have some other videos on here you might like👍🏻

@davidfarmer2049 11 ай бұрын

@@Mk7adxm the ghia automatic?

@Mk7adxm 11 ай бұрын

@@davidfarmer2049 it was, yeah, most of the Capri Ghias are automatic.

@davidfarmer2049 11 ай бұрын

@@Mk7adxmyes I know. what was the top gear? 20 mph/1000? 21?

@normanedwards7220 Ай бұрын

The triumph was a superb car , .....not just good , much better than just good , ...in the right hands it was unbeatable

@paulmasterson386 Ай бұрын

I had both a Capri and a Triumph 2000. The Triumph had superior handling, the Capri was widely regarded as being a mark 2 Cortina in drag.

@Charger425 2 жыл бұрын

Those Triumphs could shift as well.

@knoxyish Ай бұрын

yep they could

@Markycarandbikestuff Ай бұрын

To all the experts on here saying that's a 2.0 Capri and not a 3.0 you can clearly see the right hand tail pipe right at the start of the clip, four cylinder Capri's had the exhaust tailpipe on the left hand side (except the Mk1), tailpipe on the right gives it away as a 3.0. You can also clearly see the two pipes at 2:04.

@EddieLeLievre Ай бұрын

Sounds like a V6 too. Definitely a 3.0

@stu176mmm Ай бұрын

Sadly we won't see the Capri or poor Lewis Collins again 😢

@terryjacob8169 Ай бұрын

I suspect the stuntmen driving in this chase were Val Musetti, Triumph 2500, Colin Skeaping, Capri 3.0S. Two of Britain's leading film/TV stuntmen at the time.

@wearetomorrowspast.5617 Ай бұрын

Now that's a Capri.

@knoxyish Ай бұрын

yep complete with axel tramp and oversteer!!

@Markycarandbikestuff Ай бұрын

@@knoxyish Yet they managed to be highly successful in Touring car Racing in the late 70's at the hands of Gordon Spice etc, beating Rover SD1's and Triumph Dolomites etc, and not a bag of cement in sight.

@markorollo. 2 ай бұрын

he wasnt around a lot as my DNA providers split when i was a kid but i always remember the cars my Dad used to turn up in in the late 70s and early 80s, capris, cortinas, a triumph, one JAAAG (i think that was the one i sat on his knee in and steered it down the road at the back of the house, stuff Health and Safety lol) , and a volvo (went to pick that up with him) watching the professionals and sweeney always reminds me of them.

@iaincathro3373 23 күн бұрын

Had a 3 litre Capri was only 138 bhp. Back end moved all over the place! Later got the 2.9i Granada that output 150bhp. Thought they were quick at the time though

@simoncbr900rr 29 күн бұрын

Used to have a 2.0s…….you could slide it with the back end out round every corner when it was raining if you felt like it

@Matteo-ks6fn Ай бұрын

Lots of rolling and pitching. Salutes to stunt drivers these years...

@MIGHTYR1 Ай бұрын

BIG 3.0S ALL THE WAY

@captainbimble Ай бұрын

Agreed. I had a 1980 3.0S when I was in my early twenties. Bloody loved it!

@MIGHTYR1 Ай бұрын

@@captainbimble I have owned 32 capris and I,m still the proud owner of 3 A 1979 black 3.0s,Brooklands 280 turbo and a black Tickford love capris so unique ❤️❤️❤️

@mikeymikeFType Ай бұрын

Capri’s reg now comes back as a Porsche 911 GT3 RS 2016 plate

@Poz100 Ай бұрын

Interesting that was shot in Mill Hill NW7 where I grew up. I don’t remember any of that happening. Plenty of the Morse Jaguar back in the day as it was based in Elstree Studios.

@shellsbignumber2 27 күн бұрын

My dad drove a Capri and my mum drove a Triumph 2500 when I was a kid. Must of been big fans of The Professionals.

@Nicholas-ok9no Ай бұрын

R.I.P. Lewis Collins.......oh 👍👍👍👍 yeah.

@Kerveros1904 3 жыл бұрын

2:01 : the capri loses easily the traction, while the triumph even if it rolls, it is nevertheless stuck on the road. better handling characteristics for the triumph.

@Ingens_Scherz 3 жыл бұрын

😂

@Kerveros1904 2 жыл бұрын

@Mark Morrissey you must be getting loads of crap from othee drivers because you are slow mate with your capri. Capri is best when meant for clothes. It would suit you.

@mr.summerset8054 2 жыл бұрын

@@Kerveros1904 triumph doesn't touch that Capri, style wise mate

@Kerveros1904 2 жыл бұрын

@@mr.summerset8054 Your personal opinion. Michelotti's design is timeless and light years ahead from capri styling. This is a public opinion.

@brushstrokes68 Ай бұрын

Had a Capri once, best car I had

@cornishrider 10 ай бұрын

I suspect the tow bar caused the Triumphs rear end bias! Thanks for the HD

@danielball7595 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video this is why we love Capris. I've shared it on the Capri group's on Facebook I hope you don't mind. 👍

@Mk7adxm 4 жыл бұрын

Cheers, and yeah that’s absoloutley fine👍🏻

@danielball7595 4 жыл бұрын

@@Mk7adxm watching the professionals was one of the reasons why I wanted a Capri now I've got 2 lol. 👍

@Mk7adxm 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah it’s one of the many reasons I wanted mine too, you can’t beat watching top things like the professionals, the Sweeney, Starsky and hutch, dukes of hazard etc.

@jerrysummers5971 2 жыл бұрын

Great seeing all these old motors especially the Capri 💓

@aussie273 20 күн бұрын

LoL 😅 that commando roll...

@user-rc4qh3lp7h Ай бұрын

The gear shift throw on the Capri 😂 it’s comical like an old Foden…

@ROCKINGMAN 8 ай бұрын

Exhilerating or what! I thought the way Bodie ran up to the Triumph and flung the door open was very fast. I would have struggled to open the damn door!

@markb3915 24 күн бұрын

Why does the Trumph look like it’s struggling to stay on the road.😂😂

@keithjones9054 8 күн бұрын

The Ford looked the better car in the corners looking at that

@philiphall4805 23 күн бұрын

this always gets me about The Professionals , bad mean gangsters in a Marina or Triumph , at least give them a Merc or Jag

@stevensharp6035 10 ай бұрын

Commander Straker

@stevejohn1843 26 күн бұрын

lewis had a three-litre lip gurn on throughout all those chase scenes.

@speakfreeley4473 Ай бұрын

Apparently, rumour has it the someone on the production team bought the Triumph afterwards, & used it as a daily runaround. Does not however show on the DVLA website, so can't be absolutely sure if it exists or not.

@detonator2112 8 ай бұрын

That Triumph looked like a waterbed on wheels. 😁

@highvoltageswitcher6256 10 ай бұрын

Bodie in full pout mode!

@chrisplace9773 Ай бұрын

The plastic timing disc for the injection used to brwak on the p.i abit regular but they were nippy alright.

@martijnkuipers872 Жыл бұрын

Triumph 2500PI

@safirahmed 28 күн бұрын

The Triumph 2500 looks like a car for the bad guys whereas the Ford Capri looks like the car for the good guys.

@markjones-vx3kp Ай бұрын

If it was a manual pi set up no contest they were quick in excess of 125 with suspension set up they handle,with a TR6 cam 150 horse or more😊😊

@davejohnston5158 Ай бұрын

Mechanical fuel injection in the 2.5 PI. It looks like its 10 years older than the capri. Learned to drive in my dads 2000 TC

@tombrady2194 8 ай бұрын

Possibly chose the Triumph as a dirty dig to BL for messing them about in the first series.

@EugVR6 3 жыл бұрын

Had a Blue 1978 3.0S in 1993, paid £700 for it,

@abc33944 Ай бұрын

Had a 3.0 ghia w reg Auto but only £350 1st car bit of a knacker In 1993 Coventry

@SITRUUNAKAKKU-pl3jj Жыл бұрын

I LIKED THE SCENE

@bulletsdodger 26 күн бұрын

I thought the Capri in this idea was the 2.8i

@club_rock 14 күн бұрын

WHEN BRITAIN WAS BRITISH 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 😎

@hackdaniels7253 Ай бұрын

Straker out of UFO!

@WolfiePeters Ай бұрын

Contrary to the impression the film gives, the Triumph is a much better handling car than the Capri

@Markycarandbikestuff Ай бұрын

As was the Opel Manta, still like the Capri though.

@MP-fw4ub Ай бұрын

That Capri must have a couple of bags of sand in the boot, big ones.

@cornishrider 6 ай бұрын

Why would the FBI need a towbar?!

@geoffsclassiccars Ай бұрын

Proper cars😃😃😁

@AlexMitchell-sj4sb Ай бұрын

Don't make em like they used to! Both the cars and TV program.

@DoubleOSeven007 Ай бұрын

I’ll have a Mk1 Golf GTI thanks

@stevenmoran4060 Ай бұрын

That wouldn’t do 130 mph though would it? My mark 2 3.0 litre Ghia did. Downside was the brakes were rubbish and it was an auto.

@joncooke479 28 күн бұрын

Wares the mk2 rs2000, far better times back in those days

@akashields1200 4 жыл бұрын

👍👍

@richardcarter1000 Ай бұрын

Proper cars

@j308s7 Ай бұрын

Is that Capri a 2.0 S or 3.0 S? Couldn't see two tail pipes and didn't sound like a V6.

@Markycarandbikestuff Ай бұрын

It was a 3.0S, back in the days when two tail pipes was something special, now every ugly, modern pile of shite has them.

@andysllt155 Ай бұрын

Awesome

@patthorpe9559 Ай бұрын

Plenty of under steer

@themancuniancandidate2744 Ай бұрын

Some properly good driving here, you can see the Capri driver brake hard as late possible to get weight on the front end before the handbrake turn. Respect!

@gbarlow7729 Ай бұрын

I want bodies Porsche watch

@julianaylor4351 11 ай бұрын

CI5 one, FBI nil. 😁♥️

@geraldselvey7687 Ай бұрын

Hmm… not quite a mustang and a charger…

@jonnyvt6602 Ай бұрын

The 2.5 pi was a better chassis of course, but it did look crap,.so.who cares!

@mrb.5610 Ай бұрын

Leaf springs 😂

@britishcomposers 2 күн бұрын

No, independent rear suspension using trailing arms and sliding spline shafts with coil springs and dampers. In other words, the same set-up as a modern BMW. Triumph were well ahead of the game at the time with what had been brought out in 1963 with the Mk1 Triumph 2000 saloon. Later on, the 1975-77 2500S used firmer coils and shocks and had less roll, but both stuck to the road well. They were designed for comfort and to absorb road bumps, which they certainly could.

@mrb.5610 Күн бұрын

@@britishcomposersReferring to the Capri ... .. .

@langy1318 Ай бұрын

Oh Gavin what have you done with your hair and are you trying to act ard?

@resnonverba137 Ай бұрын

Bodie's...

@paullambert9291 Ай бұрын

Pretty sure the Capri was a 2L not a 3

@Markycarandbikestuff Ай бұрын

Definitely a 3.0.

@cologne2792 Ай бұрын

They only used 3.0 Capris in The Professionals as their main cars. Tommy had a black, 1.6 MK2 though.

@windjammer97 Ай бұрын

It's not a 3 litre it's a 2 litre Capri

@Markycarandbikestuff Ай бұрын

It's a 3.0

@cologne2792 Ай бұрын

It's very obviously a 3.0

@MrPeach18 Ай бұрын

That's a 2 litre s ,the gold one was a 3 litre

@mykehyslop198 Ай бұрын

Mechanical fuel injection.

@Saxondog Ай бұрын

Are these motors straight sixes? I'd have my old Calibre V6 back if I could, auto, you could drive up to Scotland and still get out of it refreshed. Low life insured driver wrote it off.🤬

@cologne2792 Ай бұрын

The Capri is a V6. The Triumph is a straight six.

@bigjagjim 3 жыл бұрын

It would no even been near the Capri if you could drive

@juliethurgood3667 3 жыл бұрын

I would understand if you could spell.

@isaacsrandomvideos667 3 жыл бұрын

@SuperBigwinston Ай бұрын

An example of terrible driving .

@Markycarandbikestuff Ай бұрын

Wow, really ?, on a TV show ?, Wow, would never have guessed.

@SuperBigwinston Ай бұрын

@@Markycarandbikestuff Thank you Marky for your observation .Drivers on tv or films tend to give a wrong attitude to young thick drivers. When you been driving as long as me you will understand .

@Markycarandbikestuff Ай бұрын

@@SuperBigwinston Sorry, i was being sarcastic, been driving myself since 1988, been driving HGV's for 26 years and passed my bike test 4 years ago, know what you mean though, there is a generation that act like they are in the dreadful Fast and Furious movies, generally TV shows wont show reckless/fast driving and the days of "the car is the star" are long gone.

@SuperBigwinston Ай бұрын

@@Markycarandbikestuff I apologise Marky i thought you was being a smartass lol. I been driving since 1983 and in lorry's since a young child with my dad all over and in many many lorries really old ones with no power steering and big steering wheels to ones in the 1979. My dad drove till he retired he was stuck in France during the dockers strike. He said the dockers were ok they even had lorry v docker boxing matches he was back from Italy . He once brought a 19 year old very pretty Polish girl to Britain she was nice to him. I never took the HGV passed bike test 1999 had accident 2001 lost my right leg and many other injury's. I think most dangerous time to drive is in the evening and late evening.The cars are like rockets now in the hands of inexperienced drivers.

@vanmush 26 күн бұрын

Proper cars, not like the gay, vegan electric shite we get now! Someone turn the clock back to the 80s ffs………

@blackporscheroadster-yw8hb 27 күн бұрын

Terrible cars, terrible chase. with clearly speeded up film to make it look faster. The suspension on those things was like a mattress and don't get me started on those 'short-shift' gear sticks.