Mom, I’ll pass on the family sedan, here’s why
![[Orange Caparo T1 in an abandoned shipyard]](http://kzdn.kzamm.com/wp-content/media/pictures/2006_06_28_caparot1_1.jpg "Orange Caparo T1 in an abandoned shipyard")
If there’s one thing I’d like to do before I die, provided the current weather doesn’t melt my brain into hair goop and turn me into a blabbering, bed-wetting idiot, it’s to go for a ride in this praying mantis of a car, the Caparo T1.
![[Orange Caparo T1 in an abandoned shipyard]](http://kzdn.kzamm.com/wp-content/media/pictures/2006_06_28_caparot1_2.jpg "Orange Caparo T1 in an abandoned shipyard")
The T1 was designed by the guys who’d worked with Gordon Murray on the McLaren F1, the most insane yet balanced car ever built. It feels like a Murray design in many ways: stratospheric power to weight ratio (five hundred horsepower to five hundred kilos, to be specific), practicality (it seats two), and initially harmless styling that turns absolutely bestial the moment you gaze at it for more than a second.
![[Orange Caparo T1 in an abandoned shipyard]](http://kzdn.kzamm.com/wp-content/media/pictures/2006_06_28_caparot1_3.jpg "Orange Caparo T1 in an abandoned shipyard")
Oh and it corners at 3 G’s.
![[Orange Caparo T1 in an abandoned shipyard]](http://kzdn.kzamm.com/wp-content/media/pictures/2006_06_28_caparot1_4.jpg "Orange Caparo T1 in an abandoned shipyard")
That’s like sitting on your ass and lying on your side with a guy twice your weight bearing down on that same side all at the same time.
Count me in, count me in.
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