What does a car do when it has a 2-liter engine with four-cylinder Ford Duratec unit rated at a mighty 263bhp. With a special lightweight chassis, thinner-gauge aluminum for the body panels and carbon fiber for the dash, nose cone and front and rear wings, the new Super light R500 weighs just 506kg, giving a power-to-weight ratio of 528bhp per ton??? Well you get a car that goes 0-60 in just 2.8 seconds and can go 0-100 in just 11.44 seconds and a top speed of 150mph, that' almost the same as the Bugatti Veyron.
As you can see the R500 is not a pretty car with a front which look like a frog, a car that does not have doors, windows and a roof can be uncomfortable to drive, but who cares on how it looks, my point is this when your driving Caterham R500 the only thing you can think off is "Will I take off?". That's how this far can go, to prevent it from taking off the ground the manufacturer and the engineers limited the R500 top speed of 150mph.
The car cost $61,057(P2,808622), but a car with monstrous feature can it be a road legal car? Yes, Caterham had already established a dealership with countries like Japan, Australia, South Africa, U.S.A., Canada and mostly in Europe.
So why did I choose to review the Caterham R500? It's simple I adore this car! This car is like a bridge that connects the past, present and the future. A body shape of a race car in the 1930's an engine of our present year and how future race car should perform. I don't care if the sun is in its hottest peak or people that would laugh at a tall fat teenage boy who drives a nimble car. As long I can feel the speed of this car everything is fine with me. As of my list of dream car I ranked the Caterham R500 as my number 1 dream car.
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