Caparo T1

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Even this supercar had been involved in a fiery incident with a Fifth Gear host, scared the Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson and is generally completely impractical, the 575hp (429kW) Caparo T1 still exudes a sort of animal magnetism. The 1000hp/tonne power-to-weight ratio doesn’t hurt the experience. That’s roughly double the ratio of the Bugatti Veyron, and enough to rocket the car to 60mph (96km/h) in less than 2.5 seconds, and on to 100mph (160km/h) in under 5. But perhaps the most impressive stats of the Caparo T1 are the lateral and braking force figures: up to three times the force of gravity throws the ... Read Full Story

Posted by Anthony Carbone July 3, 2008 at 7:36 pm   Gordon Murray is a renowned designer of Formula One race cars and the famous and ultra wicked awesome McLaren F1 supercar . Today he unveiled some sketches of his “City Car” named the T25 (Type 25 - His 25th Designed Car!) which will be an ultra lightweight eco-friendly car aimed at the masses in the UK. The Smart ForTwo has as many parts as a conventional small car, while Murray’s new T25 will use far fewer parts to speed assembly and reduce the labor and energy input at the plant. The component parts ... Read Full Story

The Caparo T1 seemed like it had floating around in one form or another for years before making it's official debut in 2008. Originally slated for production in 2007, the T1 has had a rocky road. Caparo Vehicle Technologies is run by ex- McLaren engineers Ben Scott-Geddes and Graham Halstead . Their original concept was to create an F1 inspired race car that was street legal. At first glance it appears the focus has been too much on racing and too little on reliability and practicality. A series of journalist related crashes and injuries plagued the vehicle throughout 2007. However, when we take a ... Read Full Story

Fioravant i has made a habit of showing interesting things at the Geneva Motor Show . This year it will reportedly be the LF1, a car built to demonstrate the application of Formula 1 design and build techniques to a production vehicle. Done up like the Caparo T1 ’s open-air cousin, the LF1 doesn’t look exactly like a production ca,r but we don’t know anything further about it yet… except that we look forward to seeing it. Fioravanti will also evidently be recycling another one of its Geneva concepts from 2000, the TRIS. A tiny subcompact that is also a display of novel build ... Read Full Story