Called C120 internally, the coupe will be powered by a Renault-designed four-cylinder engine mounted transversally behind the front seats in order to optimize weight distribution. Â The C120 will boast around 250 horsepower when it lands in showrooms, but Caterham will waste no time in developing more powerful variants and the coupe could offer over 300 horsepower in its most powerful state of tune.
The C120 will be built alongside its Renault sibling in Alpine’s historic Dieppe, France, factory. Â The two cars will ride on the same platform but they will not share any exterior or interior design cues.Â
“This is not a project that will create two cars that look the same, like the [ Scion FR-S] and Subaru BRZ,” affirmed Laurens van den Acker, Renault’s head of design, in a March 2013 interview. “What we plan to create is two cars that will look completely different. People will not recognize them when they are parked together.”
Unlike Caterham’s current lineup of Lotus Seven-based open-top sports cars, the C120 will be a relatively high-volume model so the firm is ramping up its dealer network in key markets around the world to prepare for a potential sales increase of up to 500 percent.Â
Caterham expects the C120 to hit showrooms across the United Kingdom in 2016 at the latest.<![CDATA[
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