Why did we buy a 20 year old 120 Roadsport Caterham 7?
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- We have had our Caterham 7 for about a month now, just about the right time to share a few thoughts about her and why we are totally in love with her!
We bought our car from the amazing team at @turn7caterham ... please do check them out!
Filmed on @gopro Hero 12 (facing us) and Hero 10 (on the roll bar).
Audio via Hollyland Lark M1 Wireless Lavalier Microphones (we only realised how to use noise cancelling part way through!)
What a lovely film that captures so much of what makes these cars fun to drive and enjoy. I can relate to all that you both say, and I laughed at the part about eating breakfast out! We have made many early trips out in the past year of ownership with breakfast as our destination. Look forward to seeing more of your adventures.
A lovely film. My wife and I heartily agree, and all the same things apply to our 2006 Roadsport SV.
We have 3-point seatbelts, which is very slightly more practical than the 4-point, but not by much. Everything still takes ages though, because people always want to ask questions about the car!
Ours is 185hp, which is quite a bit faster on the track, but honestly on the road I'm not sure you'd notice the difference - most of the time you don't have enough grip to use the extra power, nor do you want to go any faster.
If you don't already have one, I highly recommend a high rear brake light on the roll bar. The standard brake lights are so low down they're hard to see from an SUV, and having a bunch of LEDs in peoples faces does help, especially with how fast these cars can stop.
And two thumbs up for a half hood. Ever since we got ours, we've parked the full hood and never used it. The half is all you really need. If it's raining harder than that, you're in the wrong car :-)
In a few weeks time I will be driving my first Caterham , purchased from T7, looking forward to it, thanks again for posting your Videos.
Hope you enjoyed it - T7 really have been great to us.
What a lovely couple, enjoy, keep well 🙏
Thanks for the post, well done and very informative for people likes of myself who are considering purchasing a Caterham .
Thanks Jeff. We’ve honestly loved it! None of the creature comforts but so so so much fun.
Caterhams ARE beautiful! 👏😍
Why buy a Caterham 7? Aside from superb driving dynamics and the fun factor, it will take 10 years off each of you - what’s not to love?
A Caterham is the benchmark for all sports cars, bar none. People see others driving a car like this with the hood down especially in the winter and think the drivers are eccentrics, but they really don’t know what they’re missing; the speed, the dynamics, the uniqueness & specialness of the whole experience, the ritual of getting in and out & harnessing up & how every journey becomes an adventure especially hood down. When I had mine, I genuinely felt that the natural cruising speed of a 7 is 90mph. While a 7 is a very quick car, it’s as much about the other factors as described above, along with ‘it’s not how fast the car goes, it’s how the car goes fast’. Hood down, doors & full tonneau on, an open road, it’s truly driving nirvana. If you need more power (which you do) then ‘super sport’ it with an new ECU & cams. Enjoy.
I really enjoyed your film, thanks. Sounded like a similar experience my wife and I had with our Lotus Elise. I am 65 and getting in out can be challenging but the reward once moving makes me forget it instantly. We likewise enjoy people stopping to ask what it is and walking past far more expensive cars to look at ours. We took it to a local car show and I let every child walking by sit in it as they really enjoyed the car. Probably not proper for a car show as the guys next to me looked nervous some one might want to sit in theirs too, but I wanted the young ones to have fun and maybe sew the seeds for some future car lovers. Enjoy your car and the fun lifestyle !
My wife won't go near it 😒
Sounds like a man cave, but mobile and noisier.
A friend of my brother had a 7 and went to Monaco and there are Ferraris and Lambos, but everyone was ignoring them and was interested in the 7.
Dễ thương quá 😍😍😍. Tôi yêu các bạn, tôi yêu Caterham của các bạn
Buy a Caterham than having therapy with a physiatrist, for me I would have to take out the spare seat.
love you guys