Modern classics
The small British manufacturer Caterham comes with not one, but two new models. These are the Super Seven 600 and the Super Seven 2000. The first has a small blown three-cylinder from Suzuki under the hood, the second a more powerful four-cylinder from Ford.
Caterham will be 50 years old in 2023 and the brand will celebrate with the introduction of two new models: the Super Seven 600 and the Super Seven 2000. We start with the first one, which is perhaps the nicest of the bunch.
Like the existing Seven 170, the Super Seven 600 has a small three-cylinder from Suzuki as a power plant. It is a 660 cc small three-cylinder (R06A) with a turbo, which Suzuki uses in various kei cars in its home country of Japan. For example, the block there is in the local boulder version of the Jimny and in cars such as the Alto, Spacia, Wagon R, and Hustler. In the Caterham, however, the block is not 64 hp, but 84 hp strong and helps the Super Seven 600 reach a speed of 60 mph (97 km/h) in 6.9 seconds. This makes the Super Seven 600 just as fast as the Seven 170 with the same engine. In fact, the Super Seven 600 is basically just modified Seven 170.
The Super Seven 600, however, differs from the Seven 170 on the outside. With its front fenders that merge into the rest of the body, the car strongly resembles a whole series of Caterhams that the brand supplied in the 70s and 80s, think of the Super Seven 1600, the Sprint and Super Sprint. The second new Caterham has been adapted according to the same concept: the Super Seven 2000. It has a 180 hp 2.0 Duratec four-cylinder from Ford as its power plant, making it in fact a modified version of the Seven 360. The Super Seven overloaded with classic details 2000 sprints to 60 mph (97 km/h) in 4.8 seconds.
Caterham gives the Super Seven 600 in the United Kingdom a price tag of about €34,300. For the Super Seven 2000 you have lost about €45,750.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl