Caparo Agent Technologies a new and avant-garde automotive engineering consultancy formed a year ago by the rapidly accretion Caparo Group to accommodate carmakers globally with a centre of arete in failing agent architecture is putting the finishing touches to the aboriginal car it has anytime produced.
The Caparo T1 is a aerial achievement two-seater sports car with awful bound aerodynamics, which has been advised with the looks and achievement abutting to that of a Formula One chase car. With alternation assembly about to commence, the car will be congenital for acute barter gluttonous the ultimate clue day acquaintance in a alley driveable vehicle. The Caparo T1 additionally serves as a technology flagship for demonstrating the companys aerial akin agent architecture and engineering capabilities.
We said a year ago, at the alpha of this programme, that the alone way to absolutely argue carmakers that we accept the acquaintance and abilities to architecture a safe, reliable, cost-efficient and high-performance car is to absolutely architecture and anatomy one, says Ben Scott-Geddes, the cars co-designer and operations administrator at Caparo Agent Technologies. We`ve now done so were appreciative of what we`ve accomplished and we now accept article absolute and actual to discuss.
Releasing abounding capacity of the cars blueprint during the final stages of ancestor testing and development, the aggregation has appear that while chump cars are actuality readied for alpha of production, affairs are additionally able-bodied in duke for the T1s aboriginal accessible actualization as a active car and brilliant allure at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on 22-24 June 2007 which finer becomes the cartage barrage date.
With distributors appointed in the UK, USA, South Africa and Dubai and added dealers beneath appraisal the aggregation has a fast-filling adjustment book. The handover of the car to the aboriginal chump is appointed for July.
The better allure for barter and the best arresting aspect of the cars blueprint is its banderole amount of 1,045bhp-per-tonne power-to-weight ratio. The Caparo T1 is the aboriginal alternation assembly car anytime to breach through the 1,000bhp-per-tonne barrier. This has been accomplished by installing a civil 3.5-litre Caparo V8 engine, which produces 575bhp (425kW) at 10,500rpm and 420Nm (310lbft) at 9,000rpm, into an acutely failing anatomy and anatomy complete of avant-garde blended abstracts and belief aloof 550kg.
