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The most extreme road car ever?

  • 24-03-2009 12:46pm
    #1
    enviro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭


    The Caparo T1 was already a quite brisk machine - but now it's gone completely bonkers, as the British maker unveils this: the T1 Race Extreme. It gets the same V8 engine as the 'standard' T1 - if you can use that word to describe the T1 - but it's tinkered with to produce 620bhp at an astonishing 10,500rpm. That's a 45bhp improvement.
    It means that, if your stomach can cope, 0-62mph arrives in 2.8 seconds and, astonishingly, 100mph is reached in just 5.8 seconds before the car quickly maxes out at 208mph. But as incredible as those stats are, even more so are the g forces you'll experience from the cockpit: 4g around corners - the same as an F1 driver feels. Best get fit if you're thinking about buying one, then.

    cap-t1_web.jpg


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  • #2
    R.O.R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,712 ✭✭✭✭R.O.R


    Will this burst in to flames too?


  • #3
    Rowley Birkin QC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,259 ✭✭✭Rowley Birkin QC


    enviro wrote: »
    4g around corners - the same as an F1 driver feels.

    Wasn't that the problem with the original, it didn't do corners?

    Bonkers is probably the right word to describe it though, I like it. It's like an older brother of the Atom.


  • #4
    rocknchef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 406 ✭✭rocknchef


    did they give a price tag? not that i would be buying 1


  • #5
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Good spot for the headlights. The rest - not so nice, but then I was never into these "F1 for the streets" machines. Looks stupid.

    50633-c-cap.jpg


  • #6
    Beta Ray Bill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭Beta Ray Bill


    bigkev49 wrote: »
    Wasn't that the problem with the original, it didn't do corners?

    Bonkers is probably the right word to describe it though, I like it. It's like an older brother of the Atom.

    Aye it did do corners well, but you had to be traveling pretty fast around the corner. the car relies heavily on down force to keep it on the road.

    It's amazing that this car is even for sale.
    It's dangerous. It's a high powered track car that is barely road legal!

    Yes I would love to own one for a track days etc but for the public roads?... Not a chance.


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  • #7
    duploelabs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,986 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    Top Gear did a review on it and unless you're doing enough speed for the aerodynamics package to kick in (80-90MPH), it handles like crap and can't even make it round a roundabout at a sensible speed. So best of luck using it on the road!


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