Monday 16th May 2016

Caterham versus ... Caterham: PH Blog

Which is the fiercest supercharged Caterham of them all? Dan and James duke it out!

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So how was your weekend? Ours was pretty darn good, the PH team turning up mob-handed to a gloriously sunny Anglesey for a weekend of spectacular driving, courtesy of our friends at BookATrack.

A load of stories to flow off the back of this but one of them will come from the chance to drive the two sides of the Caterham 620 coin - the slightly unhinged R and the (relatively) civilised S back to back. You're onboard with James in the R with me in the S, attempting to keep the hard-charging, aero-screened, sequential shift mean machine at bay. Before facing up to the inevitable.

Just a taste then but we all hope you managed to enjoy the sun in your pride and joy too. Let us know what you got up to in the thread below!

Dan

Vid here

 

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I'd be happy with either tbh.

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Dan Trent said:

That's the funny thing about Caterhams. Whichever one you're in you think 'this is fine, how could you possibly want for any more?' And then you drive the next one up and think, 'actually, THAT is perfect, how could you ever want for more?' Repeat to fade/£50K+ bill for a sequential shift 620R when you had told yourself a bare bones 160 would have been perfectly adequate....

Dan

I know what you mean.

I started with an X-flow live-axle which I thought was all the fun in the world. Then I had a 1600 K-superlight which was a little bit more fun. Then I had a K R500 (the purple one - where are you now?), that was just mad crazy fun.

Whilst I'd still love to have any of them in my life. My head says R500 all the time - the heart reminds me that the one I had most fun in, did the most in, have the happiest memories of is the little ex-grad X-flow.

Sometimes, with age or maybe experience comes the wisdom to say, "yeah, that's enough".