Caterhams couldn't be further removed from popping down to Tescos for the weekly shop. Every time you see a Caterham driver on the road, they look committed. With the car strapped to their back, they look as if every suburban road and speed hump is about to be taken on the racing line. These cars are drving machines in the true Chapman style and nothing else. They make no pretences, no compromises.
Creature comforts are optional extras.
It's been the same formula for many years now. Caterham vs Westfield Over that time Caterham and Westfield have competed for faster and faster implementations of the simple concept culminating in Westfield's ludicrous V8 powered SEiGHT and more recently the composite bodied FW400. This lightweight version has a 190bhp K Series engine in a 433 kg body giving a power to weight ratio of 429bhp per tonne. The next move in this game of tit for tat had to be the magic 500 bhp per tonne. Roll out the Caterham Superlight R500.