This year marks a decade since my first Caterham experience. I was passenger with Heikki Kovalainen in the heady Caterham F1 days - yep, that long ago. He did some decent donuts around cones; I stalled a lot attempting the same. But the experience stuck - I'd never been in a car so loud and so raw. It was intoxicating, maybe thanks to the clutch fumes. I had to have another go.
Truth be told, most buyers would likely have preferred it if Jaguar had kept the gloves on and simply built an R-badged XE at an accessible price. But the strategists nixed that idea, and instead we got 300 examples of what is essentially a marketing exercise. But what an exercise: SVO started with an unprecedented 600hp and 516lb ft of torque from the 5.0-litre supercharged V8, and finished with a completely reworked peach of a chassis.
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