According to a post by Alister Weaver at Edmunds Inside Line, a company called Caparo is well on their way to producing a street legal racer that weighs 1200 pounds and churns out a wicked 575 horsepower.
It looks a little like a mini F1 car and will supposedly cost 378k and reach 100 mph from a standing start in (gulp) 5 seconds.
Although, I’m tempted to be highly skeptical since I’ve nver heard of the company, the article points out that Caparo is “a significant player in the manufacture of both steel and vehicle components…it has yearly revenues of more than 1.3 billion.”
The engineering team that is working on the project cut their teeth working on the 1994 MacLaren F1 Supercar. So, maybe, just maybe, they really can make this superexotic!
The write up continues with this gem: “While the McLaren F1 had been designed as a road car that could prove equally adept on the racetrack, the Caparo is a road-legal track car. The T1 has been designed so you will be able to drive your car to a track day, complete 50 laps and then drive it home again — in theory, at least.”
I can just imagine calling my State Farm agent and asking for a insurance quote for it….
The executives at Caparo are doing it to demonstrate their company’s technical skill as a maker of components and composite materials.
The article claims that the car – once equpped with the proper slick tread racing tires will exceed 3gs of cornering grip and braking force. Might want to skip the fries at the drive thru…
Do you think this is even possible to make, let alone the whole nonsense about it being steet legal?
Check it out here: http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Features/articleId=121253
