Caparo T1 Test Drive

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.

9:57 AM on Tue Sep 18 2007
By Mike Spinelli
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cafn8 at 10:22 AM on 09/18/07
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Bitchin'!
X-Zambian at 10:30 AM on 09/18/07
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"Miles faster than a Bugatti Veyron in terms of acceleration and braking." Holy crap. So does that make a 0-60 time of less than 2 seconds perhaps?
Holy crap.
One of the more endearing things about motoring in the UK is that you can put lunatic things like this on the road.
Awesome is just not sufficient word to describe this thing.
jkd77 at 11:06 AM on 09/18/07
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somebody get this to the Stig, stat.
DeeJayQueue at 12:32 PM on 09/18/07
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Too bad the reviewer has the personality of dry toast.

They need to let Jezza or Hamster drive the tires off this thing.

Then let us have the reviewer mule for the JFG.
Bowler Hat at 05:24 PM on 09/18/07
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They both make 0-100 in 2.5. I'm guessing the T1 feels much faster because it's more agile and well, the driver is just much closer to the road so the feeling of speed if all the more apparent.
Ben Wojdyla at 08:50 PM on 09/18/07
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@jkd77:

Someone get this to me stat!

@DetergentDinners:
... and because you're getting the open air, open wheel experience. My guess is that this thing is about as close as a mortal with a half milllion clams will ever get to rocking an F1 car.
skierpage at 11:49 PM on 09/18/07
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"You'll really notice the power coming from 9,000 to 10,250." (Veyron max power is at 6000 RPM.)

That tiny steering wheel looks like a portable video game.

Mental!
KingRoyale at 01:21 AM on 09/19/07
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Wow. Simply wow. I got a whole bit nervous and anxious while salivating over that video. I can't possibly imagine what driving that must be like.