Leadership Team SLR No.77 Posted April 25, 2005 Leadership Team Share Posted April 25, 2005 For those who haven't received this e-mail from Simon Lambert............. ** R500 ENGINE OFFER ** With the new CSR260's now in production and customer deliveries commencing shortly, the last Caterham Superlight R500's have left the Dartford factory. However, due to a last minute order change, we have been left with one new R500 engine. This engine is being made available for sale at a special one-off price, to anyone looking to upgrade their car - to 230bhp... For further details, please contact me on 01322 625804, or reply to this email. SIMON LAMBERT Aftersales Manager Caterham Cars Ltd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zak Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Hi Simon, *tongue*Rules of this forum say you must state a price.... Zak Updated site 16th Oct 04 - www.zak7.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knowley Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 The factory said around 10k on Saturday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WILL FLY Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 ROFLMAO, brings back memories of Cadbury's Smash advert 😬 To coin a phrase "No Way, Jose" They could sell it to SAIC who could clone them and knock them out for 3K. Roy. See willfly.net for more info. If you don't spin you ain't trying Happiness is knowing you have just a tad too much power Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielC Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Seems alot to me, how does that price compare with the CSR200, 260 engines? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Support Team Shaun_E Posted April 25, 2005 Support Team Share Posted April 25, 2005 Don't suppose £10k is far off the mark for this state of tune. Hellier are selling a 240bhp 1900K for £12k and a 210bhp version for £8k so 230bhp is somewhere in between. Of course comparing it with larger capacity engines (e.g Duratec!) is bound to be unfavourable. Yellow SL #32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bafty Crastard Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Zak This is not a Simon Lambert post! The R300 NUT'errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leadership Team SLR No.77 Posted April 25, 2005 Author Leadership Team Share Posted April 25, 2005 But Paul, some people don't read the detail Stu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knowley Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 I was led to believe 10k is around cost price, 13k is more like the RRP 7 only day @ Mallory - 06/08/05 R300 Register My R300 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orange7 Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 A little bird tells me that the engine itself is £10k plus VAT. Add on various essentials such as triple pass rad and dry sump, and labour to fit, and VAT on that lot.... ... it could be more than £15 k 🙆🏻 Edited by - orange7 on 25 Apr 2005 19:21:24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gridgway Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 AFAIK new engines used to be about 12 +VAT (which is why I sold my R500 given my propensity for needing new r500 engines). So if it is 10+ VAT then not a bad deal if you want a new R500 engine. I guess it depends on whether it is a complete unit with all ancillaries or not. Wow no more R500s that's sad. Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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