
If you’ve been following Caterham’s Project Splitwheel via the company’s regular email updates, you probably already caught this little number. While nothing of real significance has materialized out of the world’s first community-designed sports car, every now and then we get an excuse do drool over some of the hottest Sevens on the planet. Cars like the Seven Levante pictured above. This sucker’s powered by a supercharged 2.4-liter V8 with 550 horsepower. If you’re scratching your head as to who makes a 2.4 eight-pot, you’re not alone. The engine was constructed by melding two four-cylinder bike engines together to make the epic power with minimal weight. Genius. With that kind of gusto in a car that typically weighs between 1,500 and 2,000 lbs, the Levante rockets to 60 in under three seconds. Oh yeah. That’d do. [Source: Splitwheel]
