Caterham Superlight R500

The K-Series Superlight R500 was launched in 2002 and immediately became the fastest Caterham ever to be manufactured for sale. The Sevens already ultra light-weight design was taken to extraordinary new levels, with grams being shaved off everything possible. This included fitting the car with carbon fibre front and rear wheel arches as well as a carbon fibre nose cone and dashboard. The aluminium panels which made up the side and rear skins were made from a thinner, lightened piece of aluminium. Even the engines sump and bell-housing were cast from magnesium to further reduce every last ounce of weight.

In addition to the extreme weight saving, Caterham installed a freshly designed, naturally aspirated 1.8L VHPD K-Series engine producing a eye watering 230bhp! The combination of these power gains and weight losses pushing this Sevens power-to-weight ratio to 500bhp per tonne. Thats Bugatti Veyron territory!

This extreme Caterham may not be for the faint of heart, but it is sure to raise the pulses of even the most experienced drivers and has gone down in history as perhaps being Caterham’s purest ultimate performance machine.

This original Superlight R500 must be the ultimate “collectors edition”, having had just one owner from new, covering just 3600 miles in all that time. Immaculate, completely standard, and with all of the optional extras of the day, this R500 is truly a special, special car!

Please feel free to contact us for any questions. All our cars come serviced, inspected and MOT’d. We also provide all our customers with an in-house guarantee to ensure the peace of mind that we care about our vehicles and our customers experience. However, as a high performance motorsport engine, our guarentee cannot extend to the engine in this case.

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