Caparo WCF Testdrive: Caparo T1


Caparo Vehicle Technologies (CVT), formerly known as Freestream Cars Limited, was a British company that provided advanced technology development, materials engineering, and design services. Caparo Vehicle Technologies went into administration in 2015, and was fully dissolved by 2019.

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Caparo T1

Caparo T1
Text by Nick Hall
June 29, 2007



Revolution at every turn
A Formula One car for the road is about as tired a phrase as you’re likely to hear in the annals of supercar history. Every time I hear the phase only to be presented with a 300bhp, one tonne piece of wishful thinking my teeth grate, a chill heads down my spine and a little part of me dies inside.

With a genuine 3g of lateral force trying to push my face down into the fast moving tarmac beneath like some equally clichéd movie villain, though, before the full-on assault of a sledgehammer blow to the back there was only way to describe the forces at work inside the Caparo T1. It’s like, well, a Formula One car for the road.
 
Terrific car.

Too bad they restricted the engine to 10 000 rpms.

Also wished they'd used active suspensions and active aerodynamics along with carbon brakes.

That would have pushed g-forces to 6G like F1 cars at Suzuka's 130R. :D :D :D
 

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