What on Earth is a Tickford Capri?

"Some years ago I owned a Tickford Capri Turbo with which I formed a love/hate relationship.  It was a real eyeful, went like a rat up a drainpipe and was the most unreliable thing imaginable."

Not a quote from me, but the beginning of an article that appeared in Autocar & Motor June 1990 where John Coates was discussing the motor trade.