Posts Tagged ‘Caparo’
Click on the image above to view more of the Tata NanoTo build the cheapest, simplest car in the world, Indian automaker Tata is turning to the makers of the fastest, most complicated supercar on the road. Makes sense, right? More so than you might think.Caparo, it was recently announced, has been ......
Caparo touts safety features of T1, mandatory driver’s ed. for owners
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
The recent spate of negative press hampering the Caparo T1 hasn't stopped the makers of the clichéd "road-going racecar" from releasing a host of details outlining the finer points of the T1's safety systems.While the press release after the jump goes into detail about the Caparo's lightweight, yet......
Connaught and Caparo conspiring on Type-D
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Connaught's getting help from a fellow British sports car maker to get the Type-D to market next year. Caparo's vehicle engineering division, which does much the same thing as Lotus - supplying parts and engineering services to customers, will build the steel and composite chassis for the Type D. Ca......
Speeders are screwed! Caparo T1 police edition
Saturday, August 25th, 2007
You feelin' lucky, punk? Don't even think about trying your luck in London with this Caparo T1 police car on the prowl. It will run you down faster than a cheetah does a gazelle, that is, if it doesn't burst into flames first. Top Gear reports that the car will obviously not be pressed into service,......
China’s F1 entry… sorta
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
There have been many pretenders to the throne of "F1 car for the road". Ferrari, McLaren... even newcomer Caparo has joined the frey. But this has to be the farthest contender off the mark, if not the most worthy of the name "pretender" at least.
Our friends at The Hollywood Extra have a spy shot an......
VIDEO: Jason Plato’s firey review of the Caparo T1
Saturday, August 11th, 2007
Earlier this month, Fifth Gear presenter and British Touring Car Championship driver Jason Plato was hurt behind the wheel of the high-performance Caparo T1 supercar while filming a segment for the UK television show. In this video footage of the incident, all looks swell as Plato takes the car arou......
Jason Plato injured when Caparo T1 bursts into flames at 150 mph
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
Jason Plato, BTCC champion and Fifth Gear presenter, found himself in the midst of a Caparo T1 barbeque while testing the new supercar at the Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground in Leicestershire. According to Plato, he noticed a loss of power while traveling upwards of 150 MPH. He checked the outside mir......
Behind the wheel of the Caparo T1
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Although we've covered the entire gestation of the Caparo T1, we've yet to drive it. No surprise, as we'll be the first to admit that it outclasses us in every conceivable way. On the other hand, Nick Hall, the supercar scribe from across the pond, is one of the few motoring journos that actually ha......
2007 Goodwood Festival of Speed: Endurance racers
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Group C racers were one of the featured classes at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this week. To show they appreciated it, those legendary Le Mans prototype racers made a pretty good showing. Mazda's 787B was on display, but didn't run, sadly. Being the only non-piston and only Japanese vehicle to ev......
VIDEO: Caparo T1 in action
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
We just can't get enough of the Caparo T1. We've surely bored you with all the stats -- performance figures, power-to-weight ratio and engineering geeketry -- but nothing compares to actually seeing the closest thing to a street-legal F1 car making the rounds on a closed circuit.The video after the ......