The Caparo T1 is the brain child of ex-McLaren employees Ben Scott Geddes and Graham Halstead, who have been joined in their quest by none other than Gordon Murray himself (he who created the McLaren F1 road car).
In reality it’s also the fastest accelerating road car in history, and therefore the only car to find yourself in, sitting next to a Bugatti Veyron, waiting for the traffic lights to go green.
That's right: 'it' can only be the awesome 1075bhp-per-tonne Caparo T1. And this is the first place in the world where you can reliably find out what it's like to drive
The T1's headline figures are all just about unprecedented for a road car, which is kind of what you’d expect given the team of people that has created it.
The chassis-tub is made entirely from carbonfibre and the suspension, brakes, steering, engine and gearbox all bear an uncanny resemblance to the sort of items you’d find on a cutting edge single seater racing car.
Except, of course, the T1 isn’t a single seater, it’s a one plus three quarters (fat blokes – or birds – might well be able to squeeze themselves into the second seat but, without disassembling the car around them, that’s where they’ll stay for the rest of their lives).
The engine was meant to be a 2.4-litre V8 with 430bhp, but as the car evolved the engine grew to become a 3.5-litre V8 that’s essentially a mildly detuned Indycar engine with 575bhp at 10,500rpm and “around” 310lb ft of torque.
