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 [...]
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 [...]
As the whole world knows by now, I lust after Se7ens. Purest driving car there is, period. Yeah, you got X-Bows and Atoms and all that jazz, but those are just over-roided variations of Colin Chapman’s winning theme. The well-ran Se7en above has the motor from a Honda CBR 900 beating in its chest, giving [...]
I really, really like Se7ens. I like them more than other cars. Almost all other cars. In fact, you might call me a Se7enangelist. So when Inside Line reported that Ozzie firm Elfin would be releasing a successor to their Type-3 Clubman, I began scratching my head. Why mess with perfection, right? Type-3 Se7ens are [...]
It’s clear the Brit builder Aspid is crushing on the Lotus Seven. Aside from the blatant design influences, the Aspid’s performance figures would do old Colin Chapman proud. The word at Motor Authority is that the car will pack a 270 horse four-banger and is available with a 400 pony supercharger. The jaunt to 0-60 [...]
