Motor Sport Magazine

ANDREW FRANKEL

I HAVE THIS MONTH BEEN PONDERING more often than usual the seemingly nebulous relationship between fast and fun. I have often commented on the problems inherent with most fast cars, namely that to package and harness all the power required to make them go fast requires cars that end up being both large and heavy and which are, ergo, less fun. In my more iconoclastic moments, I may even have been given to observe that fast and fun may be mutually exclusive, if not perhaps quite diametrically opposed, aims.

But then a Caterham 620S came to stay

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