What is it?
The new and improved Caterham R500. So what’s different this time? Like the R400, the R500 now uses a 1999cc Ford Duratec engine, producing 263bhp and 177bhp. That’s sufficiently more in both respects to better the old car’s power and torque-to-weight ratios, and that despite being 46kg heavier. The new model also gets the option of a six-speed sequential gearbox (as fitted here), launch control and a neater dashboard.
So what we’re looking at here is a car with ...Read the full article