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  • look at the right upper corner of the camera at 4:46

  • Caparo needs to focus on build quallity and perhaps adding two hundred pounds or so to the car. I wonder what the weight distribution is like? But relying on aerodynamics for a fun time is basically like having to DD an LMP car. Not really fun at all with so much reliance on aero.

    I'd still fuckin drive it though :D

  • this car would be like having a really high maitenance girlfriend; nice to look at, fun at first, but u dont want to live or deal with it...considering how much shit goes wrong with this thing.

    altho i wudnt mind one of these lol

  • haha same

  • damn i want one...  =D

    the fire from the exhaust looks awesome :D

  • 500km/500kg

  • at 3:14

    Is that an R33 Skyline?

  • i think so

  • I would still drive it

  • It is truly insane. Combining straight-line, superbike acceleration with near F1 handling, it's simply a racetrack machine that's also somehow road legal (though hardly practical!)

    Pity it's so expensive.

  • I'd like to see this vs the Atom

  • @11Adrianluongo11

    wouldn't be close at all. Look up the times posted at the top gear track by each.

  • it'd still be an awesome thing to see :/

  • or hear

  • look at the time table at the end....

    the Atom is far behind.

  • wouldn't want to drive this 2 much. u'r cruising on the highway and next thing u kno, u've scraped both butt cheeks off on the asphalt cause the floor fell out. srry, maybe if i ws mr potato head and could find a new ass.

  • LOOOL at 4:45

    a bug blew up on the camera

  • So ye it is possible.

  • F1 Has 3 liter uncharged engine^^ and has around 800 bhp an they have had 1000 bhp

  • 3:52 = orgasm

  • with two turbochargers

  • anyone know the music starting around 1:20?

  • under steer is because jeremy was a little scared to fly around a corner like the F1 car its sopposed to be like. but i love topgear and glad he didnt go all out cause he might have been killed in it

  • Lol @ 4:45 when the camera hits a bug.

  • yes and no, they get 480, and with twin turbos on the gt-r's huge 3.8 L v6

  • 3:47 R33 rescue car? WTF o.O

  • they might use that car to get footage of the caparo T1

    could be wrong tho.

  • You can't honestly fit a passenger in that cramped cockpit that barely handle Clarkie alone.

  • skyline safety car!! noice!

  • how does fire come out the exhaust?

  • combustion in the engine

  • All engines have internal combustion, that's the premise on how they work, idiot.

  • @stopmotion7760 Too much fuel goes through the engine, too much for it to burn. It then just comes out the end, where the heat of the exhaust ignites it. You see it a lot on V8 Supercar racing.

  • at 3:16, is that an R33 GTR ambulance? hahaha

  • 3:47 thats your awnser...

  • Haha 4:45 - bug hits camera.

  • 4:42 a fly dies on the camera :D

  • OMG! The Team America Secret Signal! He watched that movie?!?

  • love Jeremy's kicks.

  • I would love to get this car...first i need to get the money for the car itself, then pay loads of money for registration and inspection of the vehicle, then buy the repair kits and other exclusive equipment for the car...as well as save up money for the high octane fuel and racing tires...well worth it in my book :)

  • lol. And then pay probably around an average of 500 quid a day for the price of maintaining it, as the floor consistently falls off. Still, if you're rich enough to afford it, then you're probably rich enough to do that. Personally, though, I would only use if on a track day. And then, if it was a track day, I would use something like a boxter instead in the case of rain, because, honestly, I don't think you want to drive 1000 bhp per tonne in the wet.

  • Actually there apparantly is a version of the T1 where the cockpit is enclosed like a fighter jet...but i would agree on using it on a track day...but if u had the money to buy the car in the first place, you could afford to rent out the track for a day.

  • I would like to see an American get 570bhp out of a 3.5ltr engine. Impossible.

    They could only get 500bhp out of a 8ltr V10 Viper! WTF!

  • It's not because they tried to get he most hp out of the block. Those chose the engine to be extremely simple. almost to the point you could think you could work on it your self. I do agree Ferrari can get more out of an engine than most american cars, however the viper is a bad example. They made the engine that way on purpose.

  • and the got 141 hp out of a 4.6 v8???????

  • well they manage to get 300 hp from a v6 for the camaro wich is for the US : astonishing lol

  • its possible to get 570bhp form a 3.5 liter.

    Its possible to get 1240 bhp form a 2.6 so why not

  • reliability, torque, drivability, having power at all times not just in a specific rpm range

  • yeah its really difficult to spread hp and torque across the powerband of a small displacement engine. I'm merely pointing out that its possible to get that much hp from a small engine, not necessarily big

  • at 4:46 he hits a bug

  • 3:15 R33 GT-R FTW lol

  • TEAM AMERICA!!! FUCK YEAH!

  • So I could buy ONE of these, or 7 Ariel atoms?

  • Or a couple Ariel Atom 500s.

  • one of these please.

  • at 3:47 there is a skyline beside the safety van?

    why?..... wait..... it's top gear.... thats why

  • Jeremy Clarkson took the Caparo T1 off the lap time board. However, look at what Ben Scott-Geddes (the Caparo T1 designer) had to say: "...adjustable ride height and electronic active driver control systems which are standard on our production models." Though the Caparo T1 that Top Gear tested was at a final engineering stage and did not have an adjustable ride height, it would preform the same as one with it.

  • Yeah, the Caparo should be put back on the board, cause unlike the cheating FXX with it's slick tires, the T1 is legit road legal!

  • The Caparo they tested could not go over a speed bump and they removed it for that reason not for having slicks or not being road legal. But, as stated above the production model is able to go over a speed bump. Since writing my previous comment I have written to the BBC asking it to be put back on top.

  • good on you mate, I hope they put it back up there!

  • What they said is that a car can't go on the power lap board if it can't run over a sleeping policeman.. They didn't put it on the board because it was so low!

  • still, it's road legal and on road tires, so it should be put back on.

  • LMAO 4:45 , he killed a bug, look on the upper right hand corner ;P

  • call PETA Immediatly!

  • another one at 9:18 lol xD

  • Nice way to die though, I'd have the new 500bhp atom, largely because it has a boot (Kinda), but mostly it won't kill you in a corner and it's 2 and a half times cheaper...

  • lmao

    4:46 bug hits camera

  • i'm curious as to y u would need 2 as much bhp as a veyron for driving on the road i could see as a track car with a professional driver but not as a road car with an unqualified person

  • He didnt say twice as much BHP in total - he said twice as much BHP per tonne. Veryron weighs about two tonnes and has over 1000 bhp , Caparo T1 prob weighs about 600 kg and has 580 odd BHP so it has more BHP per tonne (power:weight)

  • yes true but still that has nothing to do with my point

  • Fast but really scary car...

    Tell me something... why does only May, Clarkson and that man who Clarkson touched his face, when he starts talking about the stig, has that sort of flower in there jacket?

    Could it be a sign of who is the stig?

  • no, ther poppys 2 remember the dead of ww1. take it ur nt british then lol

  • God, this thing will do donuts round a Veyron!

  • that car is so unsafe.......too scary...

  • too unreliable

  • Atom Ariel is a bargain and more reliable with 90% of the performance.

    However the Caparo is freakin sexy.

  • SUPER CAR INDEED!!!

  • mudslide13 is right

  • wow! thats sick its just like an f1 car just made for the streets.

  • Other way round actually. Oversteer is the rear loosing grip and sliding out. Understeer is the front 'pushing" rather than turning in.

  • 1:20  EPIC

  • What's the difference between over- and understeer?

  • That's the problem with relying on downforce to quell understeer. At low speeds it doesn't work.

  • The guy in fast n furious also had that problem with the floor lol

  • 4.43 that fly on the camera

    funny

  • OH MY GOD!!! GOD ALMIGHTY!!!!! LOLLLL

  • I can't understand why they'r have so much trouble with this car. If it goes too fast it catches fire ... the bugatti veyron has twice as much horse power and running like a horse on steroids. it may seem like 2 complete different cars, but it's just the principle.

  • a) this thing is a lot faster than the Veyron

    b) it is produced in even lower numbers

    c) it is a lot cheaper than the Veyron and

    d) (I think) Caparo intends to make profit from selling it. (Bugatti doesn't make a profit on the Veyron. It's only there to create a halo effect for the VW Group)

    U can't expect reliability from a car build around a race engine by some men in a shed.

    I don't quite understand why the Caparo is designed to be road legal. Why would u use that thing on the road?

  • Yea i get your point, but it's the principle.. you can't afford ( just like so many others ) a car like that, none of them. So i dream and hope that i get the veyron, and not a f1 replica.

  • Bugatti Veyron weighs like 3000 lbs more though... and has what? 8 radiators? This thing is light as a feather, and probably the fastest accelerating road legal car ever built

  • yeah, but in the 10 radiators Veyron is comfortable, sweet and nice in the everyday driving, safe, and it will not broke up every mile, anyway, i love the caparo, it must be amazingly fun on the track..but in the road...

  • Is that a mosquito on 4:46?

  • no, it was a terradactyle

  • The dinosaurs have returned!

  • Can't be a coincidence that it went all wrong when Fifth Gear were testing it...;)

  • Awesome. He's referencing to Team America's secret signal XD

    (which is just flailing your arms around violently)

  • lol, @ 3:48 just in front of the van stands a nissan skyline from the medical team; way to go XD

  • even if i did do a lap they wouldnt count it because it couldnt go over a speedbump

  • On the time chart thing. Wtf is the one thats in 2nd now... giant name

  • probably the Koenigsegg CCX w/ Top Gear Wing

  • At 4:45 a bug splats on the camera!

  • 3:46 Am I the only one who didn't miss the Nissan Skyline... That's a rather quick rescue response vehicle. XD

  • 3:18 as well

  • i like how the white skyline is just chillin at 3:47

  • i want to see a lap time !!!

  • white gt-r at 3:47?

  • The Veyron has 1000bhp and goes to 253mph so its the fastest PRODUCTION car

  • per ton.. he said that means better power to weight ratio.

  • the koenigsegg CCXR has allegedly been driven to over 260mph on an airstrip by koenigsegg test drivers. the speed has not been verified though

  • koenigseggs are great cars

    only thing they gotta improve is handling :D

    I love those machines

  • no its not

  • If anyone wants to watch all Top Gear episodes for free from seasons 1-13 just PM me I'll send you the link

    Thanks

  • haha, anyone else that saw the flie on the camera at 04:45

  • that's quick~~~ only the FXX has come close to it so far~~~

  • lol 4.46 dead!

  • 235000 pounds :? i thought it was going to be 3 mill

  • I saw a caparo t1 today in Join the pact by Mika Hakkinen, and to be honest, the mercedes benz that preceded it was faster.

    Howvever the announcer did say that caparo had only 300hp.

  • its 500bhp mate, fastest ever production car.

  • aside from a Veyron.

  • Um, the Veyron isn't even the fastest. Shelby made a street car that does 254 mph. And the Zonda series are all street cars with over 800 horsepower, so 500 isn't anything compared to the hypercars...

  • SSC Ultimate Aero apparently does 257mph plus. with near 1200 hp.

  • 04:46 look at the mokito

  • OMG greatest car ever i dont care if it'l kil me i mean look at that speed!

  • Veyron is faster, albeit not around their track.

  • HAHAHAHA WAYNE ROONEY SUCKS!

  • christ

  • 0 - 100mph in 5 seconds? Holy Moly.

  • there are quicker cars, 5 is not very fast for a supercar, but the caparo is very light, and has a shitload of power so there can't too much of grip. off the line. but still it's way faster than most cars in the world!

  • Yes it is, it's 0-100 Miles per hour

    it will do 0-60 MPH in less than 2.5 secs

  • Think you might be thinking 100kph in 5 seconds. Because 100mph in 5 seconds is insanely fast. For a super car.

  • 100kph in 5 seconds is fast for sports car. 100 mph for supercar is fast for supercar, but I'd say it's not unreasonable

  • 100mph in 5 seconds is very fast for a supercar. Considering the Veyron takes 5.5 seconds to reach 100mph.

    There is very few that can do it better.

  • NO NO it ISNT QUIET

  • 4:46 Splat.

  • lol anyone see that bug get splatted on tha camera at 4:46 ROFL thats really fast

  • at 3:44-348... i swear i saw a nissan r33 skyline next (white) next to the firetruck.

  • i did too

  • im sorry your a dumbass, you talk shit about corvette, yet youll never be able to afford it or beat it at anything, so keeping dreaming you dumb bloody wanker

  • corvette sux ^^

  • lol no car over 30 grand sucks nowadays.

  • If you're going to call someone a dumbass, it would be prudent to use correct grammar and spelling at the very least... But hey, if Chevy can do something right, it's the engines!

  • hahahahahahahahaha at 4:46 a fly sticks to the camera lmfao

  • this WILL become the fastest car ever.

    well it already is but (the ex) mclaren boss brought it out too soon.

    put this against the ZR-1....yanks. No!

    the ZR-1 Is shit considering the size of the

    engine with a supercharger on top.

  • your still dumb because zr-1s rock and youll never even have anything close to it nm this car.... dumbass kids these days stupid yank

  • this is a suicidal car..amazing machine no doubt..but it isnt practical for the real world...nor is it terribly safe.if i had to pick btwn any lambo or this,i would pick the raging bull

  • lol well spotted.

  • The most amazing machine in the world, all the McLaren and Ferraris can go to hell, this one cant.

  • This machine is the fastest in the world(0-100km/h:2.3-2.5secs).O­f course it has the except!!It'll lose by Bugatti Veyron inthe stright highway!!

  • the red flowers are poppies. they are worn for remembrance day. the english equivalent of the american veterans day.

  • whats the red flower thing they're wearing on their jackets?

  • its the microfone

  • Caparo T1 description: ...driving sex :)

  • sex with a bear, cuz that thing is dangerous

  • At 4:46 the was a bug on the cam

  • lol

  • I couldnt imagine what would happen if this machine crashes with a fly, Actually, i cant imagine what would happen if you crash this at full speed against a wall. I thing you would die before the impact.

  • Only problem my friend is that the FXX can do that track a lot of times. Caparo has a 70% chance to never cross the finish line a second time. When it comes up to engineering a few brands can compare to a Ferrari. Untill this car gets on the road without thanking god once u get out of the car, then FXX is the hell.

  • apart from fxx aint road legal

  • It is road legal in the UK and in Dubai. Not legal in the US.

  • no wonder :)

  • wow thats fast... it even killed a fly 4:45

  • i seen this on Speed Channel the other day and said.." was that a fly???"...

    it was!!!!

  • Incredible car, coz u cant really buy Formula 3 car, when its almost same car and even with 2 seats.

    I can imagine how it would like to take your girlfriend to some ride, his scream may silenced even this "quite" engine)

  • at 4:44 he hit a bug

  • i noticed that too. lol

  • Nissan Skyline Medical Response at 3:15!

  • 4:45 Bug

  • that car DOES HAVE a reason to exist after all. hand it to the stig and you'll learn why. lol

  • wow 1:10.6 is faster than schumy in the FXX.

  • so it should be quiet...NO it isnt quiet!

  • 4:45

    fli in the right upper corner hahahahah

  • i cant belive that was faster than an fxx. but oh well. its more because i thought it might, well, blow up.

  • Next Supercar to test on the track: the Brabus TKR. 0-60 in 1.67 seconds.

  • Just so you know, its b(A)rabus. I would need visual proof of the Barabus TKR 0-60 in 1.67 seconds and its lap time would be around 1.18-1.20 depending on its weight, grip and handling.

  • The Barabus TKR only exists in concept. Its not going to be made and there is no real proof of it doing 1.67 to 60

  • thank you for informing me, I was never going to believe that 1.67 unless I saw it !

  • 235.000 pounds for a car that starts to burn, loses it's tires, loses it's floor, has problems with the fuel aaaand sooo ooon, it's ridicolous man...

  • hahah..thnx 4 typing dat fro me man!:)

  • so, it has the same 0-60 time as the Ultima GTR

    the same 0-100 time as the Ultima GTR

    Is approx 25 mph slower than the GTR

    Is liable to kill you if you take a corner (unlike the GTR)

    and costs 3x as much

    not much competition is it ???

    I would love to know what Top Gear has against testing the Ultima - It's a British car and a British show, you think they would bend over backwards to prove it's one of the best in the world.

  • there is no such a thing called Ultima GTR!!!