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So this is the new Caterham Seven 620R. It costs £50,000. It's got 311 horsepower and
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like most sevens, it weighs not a lot more than half a ton.
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That gives it 600-odd horsepower per ton. And let me tell you, that feels crackers.
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Oh, it's just nuts driving this car. You get flies in your teeth. You get stones in your
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forehead. You cannot hear a thing because of this exhaust pipe that sits here. But I
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don't care about any of that because it's absolutely raving wonderful.
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There's a sequential gearbox so flat shifts on the way up, and they say you don't even
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need to use the clutch on the way down, although you can use the clutch.
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It stops on a sixpence. And it goes around corners just like the world's most fantastic
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highly powered unhinged go-cart.
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Oh, look at this.
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[laughter]
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You really do have to recalibrate your brain when you drive a car like this. The acceleration
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is so intense. I mean. We'll show you in a bit what this thing can do to a Golf GTI in
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a straight line.
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But yeah, I mean, 911 turbos, Aventadors, you name it. Anything thing this side of a
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Veyron would not see which way this thing had gone up to about 90, 100 miles an hour.
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Caterham claims that the 0 to 60 time in this thing is either 2.8 or 2.7 seconds, which
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is very, very, very fast considering it's rear wheel drive.
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This is what that looks like.
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And it will do 60 in first gear.
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For a certain type of person who, let's face it, has rather a lot of money to spend on
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a toy, there's nothing quite like this. It's fantastically unhinged.
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And if you can afford one, do. No other car in the world is like this.
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Okay, so you want to know just how fast the new supercharged 620R really is. Well, the
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Golf GTI gets a two second head start here. But by the time it reaches 70 miles an hour,
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the Caterham, as you can see, is all over it
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and it goes past doing about 110. And the new GTI, remember, is not slow.
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The Caterham 620R. What a weapon.