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People pay for the Caterham badge, simple. Im not a Caterham fan though, do take my opinion with a pinch of salt. I looked at se7en style cars for about two years and clocked onto the price differnce early on. I prefer the idea of a light weight no frills fast car. Caterham are GENERALLY leather, luxury, windows and wipers. My car cost a smidge over 8K its the same speed as a R300 which costs perfectly 3 times its more. Its not three times the car which ever way you look at it.
Having luckily last weekend got to drive a Caterham Superlight R with 210 bhp all the way home from Belgium I can now understand more the attraction. Granted it was on Nitron Suspension and had Carbon everything, but it was a seriously well put together, finished and sorted example. More expensive, yes, but considering you get pretty much next day delivery on every nut and bolt ect. from their infrastructure I can now start to see why they are a premium. The world is definately a better place for all the other kit 7's but from what I experienced they are rather good actually. And he had the edge over my R1 Phoenix over a lap of Zolder definately. So it should with 60hp more and Toyo888's to my Yoko 21's, but it was close.
I want a Caterham R400 now....
I want a Caterham R400 now....
I'm definitely a big fan of the 7even concept and I own a really nice and well sorted 3 year old Westfield Fireblade which I paid £8.5k for.
As much as the Caterham R300/R400 look and go great, they are not value for money. For me at least I could never justify paying £30k+ for a Caterham R300/R400 which is really just a weekend toy - you can buy a really nice 996TT for that sort of money and there is just no comparison between the two.
As much as the Caterham R300/R400 look and go great, they are not value for money. For me at least I could never justify paying £30k+ for a Caterham R300/R400 which is really just a weekend toy - you can buy a really nice 996TT for that sort of money and there is just no comparison between the two.
Edited by toby tucker on Friday 2nd October 12:30
Bi22le said:
People pay for the Caterham badge, simple. Im not a Caterham fan though, do take my opinion with a pinch of salt. I looked at se7en style cars for about two years and clocked onto the price differnce early on. I prefer the idea of a light weight no frills fast car. Caterham are GENERALLY leather, luxury, windows and wipers. My car cost a smidge over 8K its the same speed as a R300 which costs perfectly 3 times its more. Its not three times the car which ever way you look at it.
People pay not to have to same car as illiterate morons.Shame about your car. Not.
But hey, "do take my opinion with a pinch of salt"
Edited by Noger on Sunday 4th October 21:30
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