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This is probably the closest anyone will ever come to driving a modern Formula One car on real roads, in real traffic. What's the Caparo T1 like? Apparently, "x@$% &^+ F*@xx!!" More »
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The latest Caparo T1 has apparently been dubbed the T1 Race Extreme. This track day Caparo offers 620 HP in a 1,200-lb package, heading from 0-to-62 MPH in just 2.8 seconds. More »
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The question we continually circle around when examining this idea of a fantasy garage is 'What makes a fantasy car?' There are so many variables to consider; from the emotional impact, historical relevance, lusty body work, enviable performance, and so on, and so on. Certainly it is easy to rattle off a list of cars which blow the mind and bust the pocketbook, but developing a balanced palette of cars is no simple undertaking. You could easily fill warehouses full of dream cars slathered in history from the pre-war era and call it a day, but that's boring. Sometimes a car with absolutely no history, or even a bad history is just as outstanding. A car like the Caparo T1. More »
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Now this is our kind of safety package, not an overly enthusiastic traction controls system or side-curtain airbag in site. The Caparo T1 relies instead on a Formula 1 style carbon fiber an aluminum honeycomb tub surrounded by a crumple zone made from the same material. Carbon is again employed in the nose, which models itself on the crushable items found on the front of F1 cars. Retardation is supplied by AP racing 14-inch disks all round, with 6 piston calipers at the front, 4 at the rear, capable of hauling the car down from 100mph in under 3 seconds. To ensure that drivers are able to make the most of the T1's incredible handling and braking abilities, Caparo run a mandatory -yes that means everyone - training course for potential customers.

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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=333457&view=rss&microfeed=true Take one Jeremy Clarkson, add a Caparo T1 Formula One car for the street and a bunch of first-responder vehicles, and you have a test drive, people. But damn, it really doesn't come out like you'd expect. Even with all that downforce. More »
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What happens when you combine a Formula One car built for the street and the law-enforcement community? You get the ultimate interceptor. Of course, this cop tart will never be used to apprehend members of the speeding community, but it will be on UK TV. [Top Gear] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=317245&view=rss&microfeed=true What does a street-legal (in the UK) nearly open-wheel race car producing over 1,000 horsepower per metric ton feel like on the road? Ask Autocar, which took a test drive of a prototype Caparo T1. At just over a half-ton, the T1's actual horsepower figure is 575. But it appears to have the intuitive handling characteristics of a go kart, with the sequential transmission of an F1 car and the quickness of a jackrabbit shot from an antitank cannon. We'll live through you chaps, thanks. More »
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We're always pleased when Master Nick Hall sends one of his missives from somewhere along the Spanish coastline. Usually we hear about what's going behind the scenes. Now, writing for World Car Fans, Hall talks about his turn behind the wheel of the Caparo T1 — that low-volume "Formula car for the street" created by two ex-McLaren engineers and racecar designer (and penman behind the McLaren F1), Gordon Murray. But would you drive it to the shops? Hall answers. – Mike Spinelli More »
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If you've been dreaming about an F1 car you can drive to Starbucks, dream no further. Caparo will begin delivering their close to $400,000 track-day special in July. And the stats are just stoo-pid: 575 horsepower at 10,500 rpm from a 3.5-liter V8; zero to 60 mph in 2.5 seconds; 0-100 mph in less than five seconds. Top speed is rumored to be infinity and the brakes are so powerful the T1 goes slower than not moving (fine, 100-0 mph in 3.5 seconds). The biggest news of course is that Caparo, for the first time ever, is going beyond 1,000 hp per ton in a production vehicle. In fact, they have achieved the insane figure of 1,045 hp for every 2,000 lbs. Not a word about five-mile-per-hour bumpers, though. Completely bonkers specifics after the jump. – Jonny Lieberman More »
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The original "Formula 1 car for the street," the Caparo T1 will get a little more displacement under that tiny bonnet — and no silly intake tricks. When the street-ready T1 launches at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK this June, it'll be sporting a proprietary, naturally aspirated 3.5-liter V8 with an aluminum block and power of up to 200 horsepower per liter. That should propel the 1,100-lb car quite nicely indeed. That means the original goal of 1000 hp per ton has been met and exceeded. Of course, for all its sporting pretense and likely sale to the well-heeled track-day types, the T1 is a showcase car for Caparo's weight-saving technologies the company intends to translate into better mileage and reduced emissions for normal cars. Nonetheless, waaaahooo! – Mike Spinelli More »
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The ex-McLaren engineers at Caparo Vehicle Technologies finally cranked out a road-testable prototype of the company's streetable F1-car, the Caparo T1. The first proto model, dubbed XP1 (pictured), will undergo shakedown runs and speed trials to determine engine mapping and measure durability. A second prototype will launch in December for additional durability and performance tests. The boys have teamed up with driver Chris Goodwin, who helped set up the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren's suspension. Caparo also reports that half of the cars scheduled to be delivered in 2007 have been sold (for an undisclosed price). While there's no plan to bring the cars to the US, UK motorists may see the first reddish blurs disappearing over the horizon by mid '07. – Mike Spinelli More »
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Looks like the world's well-heeled car freaks are a distribution channel closer to parking a road-legal Caparo T1 in their multicar garages. The company's given its first global dealer franchise to UK exotic-car distributor Cars International. The company's taking orders on the hand-built, street-legal Formula One cars right now — get 'em while they're still 165,000 (that's around $306,500, Yanks). More »
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The blokes at Pistonheads came away with shots of the Caparo T1 — which looks even more menacing than it did in the renderings. We wouldn't mess with the T1 if it had a big-ass gun and could turn itself iinto droplets of mercury so it could find us behind a locked door. Blimey. More »
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Visitors to the manor that is Goodwood this year will get to eyeball a prototype Caparo T1, the street-legal, almost-open-wheel, F1-style racer created by ex-McLaren engineers. A pre-production model will be on display, but won't be taking part in the famous hill climb. Still, its makers say the Caparo — reported to go from zero to 60 mph in 2.5 seconds will be ready for a 2007 attempt. We'd imagine more than one Aston Martin is quaking in its Michelins. More »
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We wrote about the Freestream project a few months ago. Designed to be an F1 car for the street, the wee beastie (456kg!) that'll supposedly pull 3gs of lateral acceleration sounds not so much like a car, but rather a Sidewinder missile on rails. The project has now been bought out by automotive consultancy Caparo, with founding engineers Ben Scott-Geddes and Graham Halstead staying on board. Caparo hopes to have the first cars on the road by December. We're slightly scared. More »
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Caparo Vehicle Technologies, a specialty-car development company founded by ex-McLaren engineers, will soon unveil the street-legal F1 car they've been threatening to build. The batshit-insane, 1,100-pound, V8-powered T1 will be introduced by His Most Serene Highness of Monaco at the kingdom's Top Marques event next week, though with a zero-to-60 time of 2.5 seconds, it's doubtful even the king could keep his composure. An international incident may be at hand. More »
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