Category: Caterham

The Caterham Superlight R500 distilled the Seven idea to a wonderfully unreasonable number: roughly 500 brake horsepower per tonne. It was not a single frozen specification, but a name applied to two especially important generations of Caterham’s lightweight flagship—first with Rover K-series power and later with Ford Duratec power. The R500 kept the Seven’s tiny…

The Caterham Seven JPE was the car that proved a Seven could embarrass almost anything with number plates. Introduced in 1992, the Jonathan Palmer Evolution combined Caterham’s featherweight chassis with a highly developed 2.0-litre Vauxhall engine and a specification that owed more to contemporary touring cars than ordinary road cars. Its name came from racing…