Caterham naming conventions have varied over the years. With a weight of around 500kg, the name sometimes reflects the horsepower per tonne; sometime it’s just the horsepower.
The car we had rented in 2017 was a 270; which had 135bhp. I decided I needed at least that to engender a similar level of giggly excitement. I also decided I needed a wider chassis; known as the SV; in order to make the experience more tolerable for my wife (this proved to be a waste of time, a tolerable experience for my wife turned out to be for her not to be anywhere near the car).
Callum had a candidate, it was a Roadsport 150, although it was advertised as Roadsport 158 because the previous owner had stuck it on a rolling road and that was the power is was producing. It was also yellow.
If it wasn’t yellow it was black. I had carbon bits everywhere. Callum took me out in it to show me what it could do. It did many things very quickly. I was smitten. I bought it.
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