Caterham Cars has released a new official video starring its most extreme Seven model to date, the 620 R, which was unveiled in July at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. The model is equipped with a newly-engineered, 2.0-litre supercharged Ford Duratec engineproducing 310 horsepower and 296 Nm of peak torque. This unit is mated to a 6-speed sequential transmission with flat-shift, enough to allow the Seven 620R to sprint from 0 to 60 mph (96 km/h) in less than 2.8 seconds with a top speed of 155 mph (250 km/h).
The 620R is diametrically opposed to the new ultra-efficient, affordable entry-level Seventhat the British manufacturer has announced a while ago and will sit at the opposite end of the range when it will finally be unveiled in Autumn this year.
The car features a unique gunmetal chassis, an air-flow optimised nose cone and a race-developed cooling package. De Dion rear suspension and wide track front suspension units are complemented by high-performance dampers all round, while the car sits on lightweight, 13” alloy wheels fitted with track-inspired Avon ZZR tyres. As for the interior, definitely worth mentioning are the carbon fibre interior panels and dash, the carbon fibre race seats and a Q/R race steering wheel. Unfortunately, the overall weight of the car is yet to be made official.
from EUROCARBLOG
