» Caterham Seven 480

Caterham Seven 480

View our test drive video here!

Located in western CT

The 480 looks stellar, there’s no two ways about it. With its purpose-built, open-wheel looks and all of its racing livery, it looks like the part of hardcore track car. It brings with it visions of old-school British racing. It’s simple and elegant, yet aggressive and exciting. It is, after all, a street legal track car and it absolutely looks the part.

INTERIOR
Almost non-existent, is really the best way to describe the Seven 480’s cabin. It’s everything you need and nothing you don’t. However that carbon-fiber dash does looks pretty fantastic, combined with its old-school simple gauges. It almost has a WWII fighter plane look to it, making it more cockpit than cabin.

DRIVETRAIN

The drivetrain is as simple as the rest of the car. The 480 employs a 2.0-liter, Duratec four-cylinder supplied by Ford that makes 237 horsepower and 151 pound-feet of torque. With its super-low curb weight of just 525 kg (1,157 pounds), that 237 horsepower really packs a punch. Sixty mph in just 3.4 seconds is nothing to roll your eyes at. The real beauty of this engine is that it revs to 8,500 rpm.

On top of all that goodness from the high-revving, small-displacement engine, you also get the joy of shifting gears yourself with a six speed manual gearbox.

HANDLING AND BRAKES

If a rev-happy four-cylinder and a six speed manual aren’t enough for you, stick them in an open-wheeled package that weighs just over 1,150 pounds. Add to that its open-wheel design, you can place the 480 on a dime and hit apexes perfectly. On Eibach springs, adjustable Bilstein dampers, and four-piston calipers with vented rotors, the 480 is a track weapon.

Caterham Seven 480 – Drivetrain Details
Engine 2.0 liter Ford Duratec
Max Power 237 HP @ 8,500 RPM
Max Torque 151 LB-FT @ 6,300 RPM
Weight 525 kg (1,157 Pounds)
0-62 mph 3.4 seconds
Power-to-weight 457 ps-per-tonne
Top speed 140 mph

This One-owner vehicle was first purchased on 2/25/2016

Registered and titled as 1957 Lotus replica

Spends Winters in storage on blocks & with tires off until late Spring. It has never seen rain.

Mileage: 2,550
Weight: 1157 lbs
Color: brushed Aluminum/ Black
HP: 237
Body: brushed aluminum, laminated fiberglass, & carbon components
Chasis: tubular steel frame
Weather equipment: heated windshield, Full roof system, side doors with armrests,
Wide Body,
Lowered Floors
2.01 Duratec 4 cylinder fuel injected engine
6-Speed Caterham close ratio full syncro GearBox
Momo Quick Release Steering boss
Caterham 4-point cam lock, quick release seatbelt harness
Dry sump system
Stainless steel side exhaust, with electric full flow bypass
Four wheel disc brakes with vented front discs and quad piston calipers
Rear disc brakes
Push button Start (with security key fab)
Battery Master switch
Roll Bar
15” Alloy Wheels with Avon CR500 tires
Tow loops front & rear Jack access points marked
Quick attach adapter for Trickle charger
Cover Zone Voyager custom car cover for Caterham Wide Body
Adjustable rear anti roll bar
Recently equipped with tonneau cover and polished stainless exhaust (photos to come)