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Then again, c<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 1" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=1"> </a>
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 2" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=2"> 004 NAKED With 380bhp per tonne, the Two Eleven</a> has the highest power to weight ratio of any Lotus ever built, but it still doesn't strike within 1
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 3" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=3"> T </a> he clearest, most pungent denominators of speed are not th
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 4" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=4"> 004 `Caterham claims the R500 w</a>ill hit 60mph in 2.88sec'
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 5" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=5"> 004 in the R500 is represen</a>ted as extreme load on the body, rampant noise from the exhaust and, well, yet another gearchange. Numbers don't even come into it. Then again, c
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 6" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=6"> clod of its addictive ly this is the most on sa</a>le? How can the Aerial Atom rward and stifling gh a clenched and a claimed r not to calculate ratio for fear of the event. Because, forgetting a
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 7" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=7"> Caterham is lavished with Carbon; beautifully ass</a>embled. White nylon gearlever especially sexy
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 8" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=8"> term supercar has been sullied and diluted to the</a> point where saloons, God help us, have been granted membership. The Atom, so far as I can tell, is the world's first loopy-car. It is also, alon
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 9" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=9"> Liberal applications of carbon fibre, a lig</a>hter chassis and thinner ally panels reduce the kerbweight to 506kg, but this car is fitted with the optional Quaife sequential ‘box which adds anothe
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 10" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=10"> 004 ‘On the subject of torque, he simply grin</a>s and says, ‘enough’’
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 11" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=11"> minutiae of `exact' figures can be left to lesser</a> machines. The Two Eleven is certainly a lesser machine for figure fetishists. It weighs far more and with 252bhp and 179lb ft of torque it has th
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 12" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=12"> st ounce of its r the purposes of have Ange</a>lsey ther and two other den and Bovingdon sues. assumes a cult sk of those opening owing that a large section of the track n car and jockey into
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 13" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=13"> 004</a>
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 14" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=14"> `Pedalling it fast is part driving; part cage ?gh</a>ting'
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 15" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=15"> 004 Lotus employs </a> adjustable traction control and downforce to counter the others' power rear tyres is borderli
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 16" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=16"> ne suicidal. Air is ndling returns to tus still </a>involves an in the faster turns, of understeer dium speed stuff. assing it as early clipping point, but ush a little and e throttle for a
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 17" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=17"> never completely cut the power, but intervention </a>is still very noticeable. However, wind the assistance back and you will experience something unique to any road car - the parp-parping of a car being
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 18" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=18"> 004 `Of?cial boot space: `none'.</a> Now we're talking'
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 19" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=19"> </a> the company's most fitted with anti-lock. such a
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 20" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=20"> extreme tool is A good thing it has just happen</a>s to be rtant determining track behaviour is is ABS like you perienced it; u wonder if it even fect is so subtle to peel the nose nfidenc
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 21" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=21"> Come on, tell us you wouldn’t wa</a>nt to be in that car on that corner around purely in the interests of rear tyre punis
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 22" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=22"> sy to overdrive ts such an overt t you autom</a>atically -gatherer in a assert yourself over sponds far better you have to relax reach serious ts of the circuit. of torque available in the Ato
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 23" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=23"> 004 corner (entry, apex and exit) the Atom re</a>gularly requires a gearchange between apex and exit, whereas the others don't. I spent ages trying to find the best way to accommodate this, first by
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 24" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=24"> </a>
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 25" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=25"> 004 neutrality; a place wher</a>e the steering wheel doesn't need to be working into corrective lock, the front brakes aren't locking-up (and the Atom is certainly the most succeptib
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 26" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=26"> ey is part driving, s more from the n't snappin</a>g into something else mp behind the n't think that the tions are meant r is so much more y Atoms I drove me, but there power and torque assu
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 27" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=27"> 004 ‘Best thing? They don’</a>t need 700bhp to make your retinas bleed’
<a title="lotus 2eleven, ariel atom, caterham, R500, anglesey, chris harris, meaden, bovingdon, drivers republic page 28" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=fdtqf&pageid=28"> SPECIFICATION Caterham </a> Ariel R500 Atom 3 ENGINE Four cylinder, in-line DISPLACEMENT 1999cc MAX POWER 263bhp @ 8500rpm MAX TORQUE 177lb ft @ 7200rpm
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