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Supercar-slaying performance, beautifully balanced handling, great six-speed 'box, racecar-with-numberplates looks.
Unforgiving ride, no ABS, excessive care is needed in standing water.
Hardcore R300 is at home on the road and is our pick of the Caterham range.
The 7 lacks the usual safety equipment offered by the cheapest supermini. There's no airbags, ESP and even anti-lock brakes, but 50 years at the frontline of motorsport means what they lack in pre-tensioners they make up for in strength.
The 7 has passed all EU-required impact tests to enable Caterhams to be sold in France, Germany and Italy. That said we wouldn't fancy our chances when meeting a three-tonne Range Rover in an M25 pile-up.
