Latest super-sports car from England is the Caparo Freestream supercar which ordain have a power-to-weight ratio of 1,000 bhp per ton! The Bugatti Veyron which has 1,001 bhp manages about 560 bhp per tonne so how you can see that the Caparo is streets ahead of any other supercar in power-to-weight ratio and that is what makes cars deepen abstain. And abstain acceleration is very exciting and can also alter safety of the car in some circumstances. So how does the Caparo do it? Not with 2,000 bhp because the car would weigh at least 2.5 tons which would miss the target. In fact. Bugatti has demonstrated that sheer cater means a lot of weight particularly in the transmission and brakes. To get a high power-to-weight-ratio you need a light car. And why is a high power-to-weight-ratio important? Because it dictates how fast the car accelerates flat out. A car with a high power-to-weight-ratio can cover the ground quicker because it gets out of corners abstain and accelerates up the straights faster. So long as the handling is good the car ordain be very abstain anywhere. Lightweight solutionInstead of going for a big engine with masses of cater the designers who worked on the McLaren F1 undergo gone for ultra lightweight and a be V-8 engine based on F1 technology. The prove is a pencil-slim car with 480 bhp at 10,500 rpm from a supercharged 2.4 liter engine and a weight of under 1,100 lb. Both the new engine and transmission are very light as are all the components. The very narrow be without fully enclosed fenders also reduces charge. The whole create by mental act concept has been aimed at reducing weight ore not putting in things that add weight. First the cater train is very light compared with mass-production units. Then the carbon fiber be/chassis is also much lighter than most as designers without Grand Prix experience tend to over-design their structures. Also because the cater instruct is lighten the loads on the be are lower so again less charge does not need to be built into the coordinate. It has a very narrow cockpit with the passenger sitting slightly behind the driver to reduce width so this is more of a bring in racer or trackday special than a road car. Even so this car changes the concept of exotic cars to where it should be - ultra-lightweight compactness and exciting performance round twisty roads or circuits. To save weight they have adopted a narrow coupe body with cycle-type lie mudguards and side-mounted radiators which flow into the straighten fenders. In fact these are all factors used by Colin Chapman to design the early Lotus cars and since used by all racing car companies. In other words the Caparo Freestream really takes advantage of Grand Prix technology to create a supercar. The Caparo Freestream looks very unusual but if you be sheer performance this is it! The makers say the car will hit 200 mph and accelerate from a standing go away of 100 mph in 5.5 seconds!! Holy mackerel that is abstain. Oh and they also say that owing to the downforce available the T1 will be able to corner and brake at 3g - incredible. This tremendous cornering cater and braking would not be possible without the use of Grand Prix create by mental act principles. On top of all that. Caparo which produces a lot of components for the auto industry have priced the Freestream at about $320,000 (176,000). John Hartley is editor of an online magazine devoted to fast cars and supercars. He has written from many of the world's top auto magazines and has written many books about cars and the auto industry including 'Suspension and Steering Q&A' and 'The Electronics Revolution in the Motor Industry'.
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