RE: Caterham R500 Superlight Teaser

RE: Caterham R500 Superlight Teaser

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Plotloss

67,280 posts

271 months

Wednesday 9th April 2008
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TonyHetherington said:
Slightly unfair that. Both my Lotuses have been 100% water tight (an 04 and now an 06 car).

My friend's '98 car though, not so much...
The VX was water tight.

Both TVRs leaked.

cater_racer

29 posts

232 months

Wednesday 9th April 2008
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If it's like any other Caterham, they will expect the firts owners to do all the product development & testing

darth_pies

697 posts

218 months

Wednesday 9th April 2008
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More info on this Blatchat thread here:

http://www.blatchat.com/t.asp?Id=149463 

Gingerbread Man

9,171 posts

214 months

Wednesday 9th April 2008
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Yummy

johnaachen

668 posts

218 months

Wednesday 9th April 2008
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Why release a "teaser" photo - all Caterhams look exactly the same?!

LukeBird

17,170 posts

210 months

Wednesday 9th April 2008
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Yes please! yes

cloud9

Gizmo535

18,150 posts

210 months

Wednesday 9th April 2008
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johnaachen said:
Why release a "teaser" photo - all Caterhams look exactly the same?!
Haha, that is PRECISELY what I thought hehe

waynepixel

3,972 posts

225 months

Wednesday 9th April 2008
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What with the Teaser image, Caterham have been using the same old body design for the last 40+years?

69elan+2

13,861 posts

214 months

Wednesday 9th April 2008
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Bit out of touch with Caterhams - has that one got a couple of extra ducts on the top of the nose?

+ as has already been said, the back might be slightly revised, Westfield made a fairly bold change recently didnt they?

L100NYY

35,220 posts

244 months

Thursday 10th April 2008
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69elan+2 said:
Bit out of touch with Caterhams - has that one got a couple of extra ducts on the top of the nose?

+ as has already been said, the back might be slightly revised, Westfield made a fairly bold change recently didnt they?
yes It looks like a similar nose/vent arrangement to the CSR.

BertBert

19,063 posts

212 months

Thursday 10th April 2008
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it's very exciting, but re-releasing a car with the same name based on the same performance attributes as the one er 7 years ago? Gosh, I wonder what on earth it'll look like? What are they thinking?
Bert

robcollingridge

611 posts

284 months

Thursday 10th April 2008
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Crikey, for £37k you'd think they could have made it a bit lighter! I'd expect a few more carbon fibre parts for that kind of money. 500bhp/ton should result in a better 0-60mph time too!

If I'd had a £37k budget for my Fisher Fury, you wouldn't see me for dust in that thing :-)

Rob
http://www.robcollingridge.com/FuryR1/

darth_pies

697 posts

218 months

Thursday 10th April 2008
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robcollingridge said:
Crikey, for £37k you'd think they could have made it a bit lighter! I'd expect a few more carbon fibre parts for that kind of money. 500bhp/ton should result in a better 0-60mph time too!

If I'd had a £37k budget for my Fisher Fury, you wouldn't see me for dust in that thing :-)

Rob
http://www.robcollingridge.com/FuryR1/
You also might find your £37k turns to dust when you try and sell aforementioned Fury.... scratchchin

robcollingridge

611 posts

284 months

Thursday 10th April 2008
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Yes, but I wouldn't need to spend £20k to get a similar level of performance, never mind £37k! Depreciation is thus less of an issue.

I'd love to do a side by side comparison. It's a great car, just a lot of money for what you get. I'll get off my soapbox


Edited by robcollingridge on Thursday 10th April 20:12

Caddyshack

10,829 posts

207 months

Thursday 10th April 2008
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richarddorman said:
yea but a tvr has a real roof on it and doors
Shame they will de-laminate and fall off like the did on my cerbie!

ZesPak

24,435 posts

197 months

Friday 11th April 2008
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must be that PH is a bit behind.
Full pictures are already released.


waynepixel

3,972 posts

225 months

Friday 11th April 2008
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ZesPak said:
must be that PH is a bit behind.
Full pictures are already released.

Dam it looks so different, but know in Chav form.