Once you get a look at the megayacht-and-toy team that Sunseeker is debuting at the London Boat Show this week, you might just find that having a RIB or even limo tender in the garage is so passé.
Certainly, the Predator 108 Special Edition is turning heads for her own features. They include a gold paint job and panoramic windows in the larger-than-usual master suite. They further include black walnut, zebrano, and wenge wood inside. Of course, the yacht boasts a reported 35-knot top end, too. But the Caterham Seven sports car in her tender garage, a joint promotion with the automotive company, is getting even more attention.
If you’re a sports-car aficionado, then you’re more than familiar with the cult-like following that Caterham Cars has. Originally a dealer for the iconic Lotus 7, Caterham obtained the manufacturing rights for that car in 1973. It’s been building and selling the agile, lightweight performer ever since. If you’re a television buff, you may remember seeing the car in the British spy series “The Prisoner.” Its driver was the character known as Number Six.
Number Six – and Chapman himself, according to Ansar Ali, the managing director of Caterham – would have approved of putting this sports car where a sport boat goes. “Our two companies have more in common than one might think at first,” Ali states. He makes a good point. The entire Predator lineup is aimed at performance-oriented cruisers. Pulling into a see-and-be-seen port like Monaco aboard a Predator 108 Special Edition warrants a flashy car to take into town. (Assuming the owners take the car ride, the remaining six guests aboard the superyacht will need to find other transportation, however…)
Since Sunseeker builds this new Predator on a semicustom basis, pricing starts at £7.1 million (about $11.4 million). The Caterham Seven starts from £12,995 (about $20,822). You can get a look at the two together at the show through the 17th of this month.
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