citação:Caparo cuts a dash
From brainchild to wild child in less than a year is an impressive transformation.
It's one the Caparo T1 has undergone, and it's now entering the difficult teenage process of development with the completion of the first running prototype.
Called XP1, this car was driven by creators Graham Halstead and Ben Scott-Geddes for the T1's first-ever trial run.
A second prototype is on the way soon, and both cars will undergo reliability and endurance testing before the first T1s reach customers in March 2007.
Just 24 of the £150,000 T1s are expected to be built per year, but Caparo says it has an order book that will keep it busy for most of next year.
Much of the development driving will be undertaken by racing driver Chris Goodwin, who was also largely responsible for the McLaren F1's development, so he knows a thing or two about honing supercars.
The T1 could give the Bugatti Veyron a run for its money in the acceleration stakes, with 0-60mph expected in 2.4 seconds.
The T1 uses a purpose-built 2.4-litre V8 with 480bhp and has an all-up weight of just 470kg, which gives the car a Veyron-rivalling power-to-weight ratio of 1,000bhp-per-tonne.
From brainchild to wild child in less than a year is an impressive transformation.
It's one the Caparo T1 has undergone, and it's now entering the difficult teenage process of development with the completion of the first running prototype.
Called XP1, this car was driven by creators Graham Halstead and Ben Scott-Geddes for the T1's first-ever trial run.
A second prototype is on the way soon, and both cars will undergo reliability and endurance testing before the first T1s reach customers in March 2007.
Just 24 of the £150,000 T1s are expected to be built per year, but Caparo says it has an order book that will keep it busy for most of next year.
Much of the development driving will be undertaken by racing driver Chris Goodwin, who was also largely responsible for the McLaren F1's development, so he knows a thing or two about honing supercars.
The T1 could give the Bugatti Veyron a run for its money in the acceleration stakes, with 0-60mph expected in 2.4 seconds.
The T1 uses a purpose-built 2.4-litre V8 with 480bhp and has an all-up weight of just 470kg, which gives the car a Veyron-rivalling power-to-weight ratio of 1,000bhp-per-tonne.
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