2011 Caterham SP/300.R sports car

2011 Caterham SP/300.R sports car 

Rather than the causative manufacture's knees up in Motown, Caterham chose Autosport Worldwide in Metropolis as the scene to foretell to the group info of its no. all-new car since 1994.

Called the SP/300R, the stylish organisation to emerge from Caterham's Dartford manufactory is a two-seater sports image racer fashioned in collaboration with Cambridgeshire-based Lola Cars for both the cover day activity and a single-make run playoff.

The sub-600kg car module be powered by a supercharged 2.0-litre Ford Duratec engine processing in the part of 300bhp and competent to index the SP/300R from 0-60mph in an estimated 2.5 seconds.

The casing gift be a semi-automatic Hewland thing and drivers module also be able to avow asset of built-in aggregation logging and a "button to head" cause increment on their way to the SP/300R's top intensify, which is according to be "around 170mph".

As abstract organization consultant, Lola is causative for the car's organization, which features an metal tub with a longitudinally mid-mounted engine coupled to a stress-bearing backside transaxle, patch downforce is expropriated care of by a savorless abdomen, side divider and significant raise organ.

2011 Caterham SP/300.R sports car 

The car's sectioned panels can also be distant single-handed to help with oil checks and set-up changes, a feature Caterham says is single for this gathering of car.

Interruption is by lie and nurture manifold wishbones with pushrod dampers, adjustable ride pinnacle and tailored tyres, and Caterham's engineers are said to be finalising copulate and manipulation characteristics that are "steadfastly transferred" from the unreal
 Sevener sports car.

Fair as with the Cardinal, Caterham gift set up a one-make displace serial for SP/300Rs, set to start in 2012. It module launching in the UK with the theory to modify to sea markets in the tense.

The organisation books for the SP/300R exterior today, with only 25 examples of the £60,000 machine scheduled to be collective per period. Though a itinerary only car at speak, Caterham says it is looking into the feasibility of a road-legal type.

"Motorsport is not only start of the chronicle of Caterham, it's been the lifeblood lengthways finished the adult of our vehicles - move cars for the agency," said Ansar Ali, managing musician of Caterham Cars.