Sigh, there are many designs for making capacitors, but probably there are indeed wires, they would be used to connect the foils to the external terminals.
And the foil and insulating layers are indeed WOUND around in the form of a coil. Winding as a verb or noun does not apply solely to those made with wire.
The picture above shows a design for an ELECTROLYTIC capacitor, which has a layer wetted with a liquid or semi-liquid electrolyte. These are often found in electronic equipment as you get more electrical capacity for the same physical volume, but they are not suitable for car distributors, the heat would evaporate the electrolyte.
Distributor capacitors/condensors would use just dry layers: alternative layers of conducting foil and nonconducting material (usually like paper). For this reason they are often called 'paper' capacitors.
'condensor' is the old old name, which has somehow survived through the years in the motoring industry, but 'capacitor' is the name that has been used by the electronics industry for almost forever.
Here are lots of pictures of paper capacitors:
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1637& ... hKYp9ImveM