Fastest Road Legal Caterham Super 7 with music
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Top Comments
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il admit, the americans are good at building most things, but they are SHIT at designing good cars. Leave that area to the brits and germans.
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We want to hear the full energy of the car, why ruin it with music?
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@stayfly90 Top gear really doesn't matter to most of us Americans . We watch the show and enjoy it, but at the end of the day if you ask us what we want, it won't be any car on the program. It'll be a big heavy N/A V8 with an even heavier torque bias. Look at the differences in what motorsports we watch and enjoy. There isn't a city in America without a quarter mile dragstrip. Sure, we have famous "tracks", but that has more to do with how big the country is than popularity of them.
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@stayfly90 agree, top gear rocks,US cars they sometimes come close but always jus good enough to follow
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@magnum9987 The CSR is not US road legal as a production car
because of lack of safety features and failure to meet emissions standards
but can can be licensed for legal road use if the engine and transmission
are purchased separately from the chassis.
Chassis may be purchased from 7 dealers located around the country.
Engines and transmissions may be purchased from Caterham USA.
My CSR has over 20K legal road miles in the US.
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@magnum9987 The CSR has 10" vented disks with 4-piston AP racing calipers.
For the ZR1 to have the same brake area per ton as the CSR, the ZR1 would need 16" disks.
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@csr26O But does it have 15" carbon brembo brakes and is it US road legal?
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@magnum9987 For the corvette zr1 to have the same rubber on the road for its weight as the CSR, its rear tire width would have to be increased from 13" to 25"!!! The lighter CSR also gets away with a stickier "020" DOT-rated tire compound.
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@magnum9987 The $70K 260HP 1300# 47/53weight-distributed caterham csr260 is cheaper and quicker than the $110K 638HP 3333# 51/49weight-distributed corvette zr1. With its lighter weight, carbon-fiber alcantera seats and momo steering wheel, it is more comfortable, fun and easy to drive far and fast and gets up to 30MPG!
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@stayfly90 Well I don't know if you've ever heard of this place called the nurburgring where they race and test all sorts of supercars and how the corvette Zr1 beat a twice the price porsche gt2 rs? Do not get me wrong for the zr1's price, it kicks ass of car twice the price. Only koenigseggs and ascaris and paganis can beat corvette
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@magnum9987 Well I don't know if you have ever watched a tv series on the BBC called Top Gear but they race all the worlds super cars around the same track with the same driver each week and the top of that lap board is sufficiently American free for me to say with confidence that the Europeans shit all over America when it comes to car design and manufacture!
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@stayfly90 the super 7 or caterham what ever you like to call it was originally designed by colin chapman a british man
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@canam1945 That's nice for him and indicative of the audience at a university, but for petrol heads it's a good video spoiled. Is there a without music version? In all seriousness, having a solid musical overlay limits the audience to people who can tolerate that (expletive deleted) excuse for music.
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@stayfly90 I bet that if every country was to make their best car, the americans would put their Discovery rocket on a chasis, the russians would bring a plane and say it's a car, while the brits and germans would tune a Mini Cooper S. :))
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the fastest run a 2400cc v8 based on bike engines and the cosworth
powered ones with upto 800bhp!!
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haha good effort looked like 220kmh...be hard pushed to get much more from any caterham. last one i was in was an R500 Superlight (in the UK) and that was pretty immense. nothing quite like doin 140MPH with ur buttocks virtually scraping the tarmac and struggling to breathe due to lack of windscreen so much fun. didnt know the little fellas had made it out to your neck of the woods (also a tasty lotus esprit in the barn) nice work :)
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@canam1945 What kind of award? For filming a car driving over the speed limit with a hand held camcorder? (( Or are you joking about the award ))???
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@stayfly90 The corvette ZR1 will take down any porsche 911. Don't get me wrong, I love Porsche, but you got to give props to GM for building the best affordable supercar on earth......
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NIce jag. Nice ferrari. nice caterham Classic. Nice fucking everything!
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why music when everyone wants to hear the busa?
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@canam1945 that's kind of besides the point.... as supporting evidence for a thesis, it doesn't have to stand up by itself as a work of media in its own right...... and as a result the techno music is annoying and pointless if you consider this video by itself. would be nicer just to hear the engine.
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lol @ 5:23 he is struggling to speak properly from all the adrenalin rushing through his body lol lovely, my MX 5 turbo only did 0-100kph in 6 sec and I used have the same problem speaking - haha your car is so cool man glad to see it you must surprise the hell out of those big clumsy cars and trucks over there.
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@kaspa1 bull shit whats the take off time? is it a head turner? does it sound nice? is it hand built? how much does it weigh? how much fun is it? and how much did you spent all together? i do believe that on these factors the caterham wins so FUCK YOU!
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@stayfly90 Agree. The best looking Sports cars made in the 50s, 60s and 70s Were all European, But you have to admit that Americans built some of the best looking passenger cars in the world, from the 40s onwards. Also the most Hotrodable.
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@stayfly90 and leave the japs to make good engines! eg. honda CBR engiens, the Toyota 4AGE, ZZ's, the 7M and more... sry if i forget a few!
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nice car collection
Nice , is it Busa powered or Yamaha.
and it had to happen, thats a pretty brave statement you made there, but i have a N/A toyota 3SGE powered 7 that will beat it, and is road redgistered and leagal, sorry bloke just couldnt resist
good to see you get it out and actualy drive it
merry Xmass
Kaspa
kaspa1 3 years ago
Hi Kaspa. I beg to differ ! Our cars are the fastest certified legal road cars here in Canada. Fully equipped with windscreen, wipers, washers, heater, demister, roof, side curtains and all light etc.With our 1400ccs 256bhp Suzuki Hayabsa engine 0-100kph 2.92secs
Happy Christmas to you too! ( Not fair thinking of you in NZ at 30deg and we have 3ft of SNOW.......Cheers
canam1945 3 years ago