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If you like driving without frills this is the car for you. It is ear-poppingly quick (holding the Sunday Times 0-60mph record of 3.28sec) and makes no concession to driver comfort. When you are behind the wheel you notice this because your nose has been windblasted across your face and your fillings have been shaken loose. On lesser versions of the Seven even the doors are options. This is not a car for the faint-hearted, but if you’re an adrenaline junkie it’s better than base jumping on acid.
Caterham Seven: At £37,000 the CSR 260 is the most expensive Seven. The excellent Caterham Classic is the cheapest, costing £15,450, or just £12,950 should you choose to build it yourself.
Drive a Caterham, in town, behind virtually any other modern day car and watch which one people look at. And people includes grannies and grandpas, mums and dads, boys and girls, from children in buggies to oldies in wheelchairs, they recognise a real, special car when they see one. Cool car, mister
Martin Emslie, Lerwick, Scotland
The 0 to 60 time quoted is decidedly slow, The acceleration
is fantastic and road holding, not just above par, but out of
this world. Mine recently went to Lisbon and back, returning
33 MPG., It is noisy and that does curtail hell-bent usage.
Messrs Caterham are terriific people to deal with and
remembering it is a hand-built car, certain issues so
experienced need such a back-up - and get it.
Ken Protheroe, Chepstow, Mon.,
It's 50 years old and still as fresh as the day it was designed.
Brendan, Ripon,