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The Caterham 7 is one of the rowdiest road cars you can buy. It’s quite unlike anything else on the road, exposing you to the noise, sensations and smells of nut-and-bolt performance motoring. Their only unremarkable point? The engine isn’t all that exciting. At least, not according to the owner of this 7.
Video: The crazy sounds of a rotary‑engined Caterham 7
See, this one has an engine that’s as batty as the car it’s mounted to, a screaming, parping, rotary. The driver extends it fully in qualifying for the East London GP around the Prince George Circuit in South Africa. To some, this will sound like the arrival of a hornet-based apocalypse. To others, engines don’t get much better. There’s no sitting on the fence with a rotary and, as you can hear, they don’t like it when you sit on half throttle either. What a way to get half a world away from the office this lunchtime.
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