Designed for lovers of featherweights, high performance and classic design, the new Caterham Seven 420 CUP is the latest creation to come out of the British firm’s workshops. A toy equipped with everything you need to get away from reality for a few hours and enjoy the open sky.
The British manufacturer reappears with a new bet under its arm, one of the usual toys in its catalog that becomes much more special thanks to a package of improvements. The new Caterham Seven 420 CUP It offers everything that lovers of high performance and classic cars need to forget about the madding crowd for a few hours and ride to the limit in search of special sensations.
those of Caterham have truly thrown the house out the window, because this new variant of the Seven has a really special configuration that makes the circuits practically its only habitat. Its chassis has a suspension armed with adjustable dampers supplied by Bilstein and adjustable in ten levels of stiffness, supporting the Avon ZZR Extreme tires, special for the circuit, and which wrap around 13-inch alloy wheels at the front and 8-inch at the rear. The steering is assisted, the brakes have four-piston discs and calipers and is even served with a limited slip differential.
Sports arguments those of the Caterham Seven 420 CUP
With a unique personality, and the British brand has an extensive catalog to satisfy all color requests, the new Seven 420 CUP adds special distinctive elements such as the LED taillights and even a large roll cage for the most daring. Caterham prints its particular stamp with a special decoration in gray.
The small cabin is prepared for two seats. The dashboard is made of carbon, a lightweight material that also can be ordered for the seat frame. The headrests and transmission tunnel are lined in Alcantara, featuring an instrument cluster with quick-release MOMO steering wheel and red “CUP” dials. The seats have seat belts and six-point harnesses and, in addition, the windshield is made of composite.
A true featherweight combined with Ford’s powerful Duratec petrol engine which, with 2.0 liters of displacement, yields a maximum power of 210 CV. Figure with which it is capable of reaching 100 km/h in just 3.6 seconds thanks to a box of six-speed sequential gearbox, and a top speed of almost 220 km/h. The Caterham drivers have set a record time of 1 minute 45 seconds around the Oulton Park circuit. The bad? Its priced at £54,990. At the exchange rate, 64,693 Euros.