The Caterham 620R packs wide-track front suspension, a supercharged 2.0-litre Ford Duratec motor producing 311bhp and 219lb ft driving the back wheels through a straight-cut, sequential six-speed gearbox and limited-slip differential.
It is a few ancillaries away from being a race car, and not much this side of a hypercar such as the Bugatti Veyron could keep pace with it. It is extreme in a way only drivers of a BAC Mono or Ariel Atom could understand.
Steve Sutcliffe puts Caterham's fastest ever road car to the test to find out if it is also its most intoxicating.
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Frightmare Bob
An utterly mad car. Sadly, I
An utterly mad car. Sadly, I have neither the money nor the skill...
I'm a disillusioned former Citroëniste.
6th.replicant
Call me a woosy, but I'd only
Call me a woosy, but I'd only drive it on a track while wearing a lid - its total lack of side-impact protection and the proliferation of slab-fronted SUVs and text-writing truckers, etc, make it way too vulnerable for public roads.
Nice vid, mind, but it's much too short
PhilM4000
Way beyond my skill level
Seeing Steve drive this as its maker intended demonstrates how woefully lacking my skills would be in a car like this. Even after about half a million miles of normal driving I would approach this with real trepidation which would ruin the fun. Ill take the 80hp entry level option please.
Mortice
Like a Bike.
My Bike is a Suzuki Hayabusa.
Seems to me like the Caterham here gives car drivers a similar buzz of power to weight ratio that bikers have been getting for ages....big thumbs up.....!!!!
Einarbb
A normal bloke is better off with the new 3-cylinder Cateram
Peter Cavellini
Useless....!
Peter Cavellini.
jason_recliner
Sutter the Nutter!
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