It’s been way too long since we featured a little open-wheel glory here on Autofiends. To rectify that situation, I give you the Caterham CSR 175. Designed to be the most accessible – and sane – of the company’s CSR line, there’s a 175 horsepower, 2.3-liter Duratec four-cylinder. What, you aren’t bowled over by the [...]
It’s been way too long since we featured something without proper fenders, and it’s been even longer since we’ve been fortunate enough to plaster a Se7en-inspired design across our pages. The beauty above has been worked up by Irmscher, a German builder that’s been largely responsible for wrenching on GM products in the past. Now [...]
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 [...]
I feel… not a sense of regret, but one of self-disapointment that I haven’t spent more time over the past few months hyping Se7ens. After all, they are my favorite cars and I do have to get to write about cars everyday. But, what is there to say about them? The design is laregely unchanged [...]
Not so long ago, our favorite cranky auto journo Jeremy Clarkson laid the weighty crown of Top Gear’s best car of the year on the Caterham 500. And we were happy. If you’ve spent any time around Autofiends at all, you know we’re suckers for open-wheel hoonage, of which the Caterham reigns supreme. Once the [...]
You remember the Aspid, don’t you? The Caterham-esque bruiser plays to all our Fiendish soft spots, specifically those with with labels like “light weight” and “hand-welded aluminum space frame.” The lucky bastids over at CAR Magazine Online got a spell behind the wheel of the car in its home town just outside of Barcelona. What’d [...]
That’s right. Evidently, Caterham’s getting tired of cranking out variations of the Lotus Se7en. Instead of hitting the drawing board themselves, the company is turning to the web for their next design, meaning you’ll have a say in what they turn out as their next model. The site will use a combination of blogs, forums, [...]
There are light-weight cars and then there’s the 661 lb Fuoss 01. In comparison, the Caterham Superlight R300 we previewed the other day weighs in at a portly (yeah right) 1,100 lbs. Yes, it looks like a go-kart, but this track machine is powered by a 43 horse DOHC Suzuki motor coupled to a five-speed [...]
Oh yes. Maker of the ultimate application of Chapmanian ideals (Chapmanian — you like that?) has pulled the cover off two of its newest models — the Superlight R300 and the Roadsport 175. Befitting its name, the Superlight R300 weighs in at just 1,100 lbs, and thanks to the 2.0-liter Ford four banger out front, [...]
It’s well known that Fiends heart Se7ens. But there exist certain riffs on Chapman’s ideal that are so impossibly bonkers it’s hard to even imagine them. No, seriously. Take the Caterham RS Levante — it sports more than 1,000 horsepower per ton (twice that of a Bugatti Veyron) and doesn’t have any doors. Crazy, I [...]
