While we can’t get enough of the Caterham and all its copycats, the one thing we’ve never said to ourselves is, “This indispensably a roof, some luxuriousness amenities and 400 horsepower.” But that’s exactly what IFR Automotive has done with the Aspid. IFR is an acronym for the engineer that founded the firm, Ignacio Fernandez Rodriquez, whose former employers include Prodrive and the Mitsubishi WRC team. Rodriquez wanted to create a track-day masterpiece that would not only confirm to FIA safety standards and European homologation requirements, but in like manner offer a level of luxury and refinement previous unseen on other track-bound whips.

The result is a lightweight aluminum and carbon fiber structure that tips the scales at around 1,550 pounds. Two engines will have existence available when the prolongation model hits the streets later this year, including a naturally aspirated 2.0-liter producing 270 hp, or a 400-hp turbocharged translation of the same full. Power will be sent to the rear wheels by way of a six-speed manual gearbox and a limited-slip differential. With that complacent of power to load down ratio (570 hp per ton), IFR is predicting a 0-62 run of 2.8 seconds, a 0-100 sprint of 5.9 seconds and a maximum (restricted) speed of 155 mph. Slowing and turning the Aspid should be equally dramatic, with the lightweight coupe halting from 100 mph in three seconds peremptory and hitting 1.6 g of lateral acceleration.

All that mind-boggling performance will come at a cost, so when you place your order after the Aspid’s debut at the London Motor Show next month, you’ll be expected to cough up £75,000 before you can take delivery nearest summer. Press release in the world of the departed the fold.

[Source: Aspid via SCC]