Thanks to an impressive automotive legacy and attention grabbing performance, Caterham Cars is currently experiencing the highest factory built production volume in the history of the company. Tim Brown met with operations director, Gideon Wigger, and took a look around the manufacturing facility responsible for the 2009 Top Gear car of the year — the supercar destroying, Superlight R500.
The Caterham sales team casually refer to their second best performing production car, the Superlight R400, as a ‘Ferrari eater’. Comparatively, the R500 features an extra 100bhp-per-tonne and the ability to reach 60mph in under three seconds (almost a full second quicker than the R400) and is quite simply an automotive monolith. While the R500…
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