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- Small UK sports-car builder
of the Caterham 'Seven' (1973+),
which was originally the
'Lotus 7' (1957+).
The Seven is available as a CKD kit,
or fully built for +£3K (2011) more.
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- 2007: Caterham switched from the
late Rover 'K-series' engine,
used since 1991,
to the Ford 1600 'Sigma' (115ps to 150ps)
as the base engine for the Seven.
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- 2011 April:
'Team Lotus', the F1 team, bought Caterham Cars.
- 2012:
'Team Lotus', was renamed the 'Caterham F1 Team' for 2012,
thus settling a dispute with the 'Lotus Renault' F1 team that began
when Lotus (as linked to Lotus
road-cars) joined the 'Renault' (pre 2011) F1 team for 2011.
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- 2012, November 5:
Caterham Cars and Renault
announced a joint venture to produce a new sports car to be built in Dieppe.
(The announcement also revealed that, at the time,
"Caterham Group [employed] over 500 people across
the four arms of the business:
Caterham Cars (150),
Caterham F1 Team (280),
Caterham Technology & Innovation (40) and
Caterham Composites (30).")
- (2014: Renault bought out Caterham's stake in developing the new 'Alpine'.)
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- 2013, July:
The Caterham Seven '620R', replacing the Superlight R500,
was at the Goodyear Festival of Speed --
2.0-litre supercharged 310bhp (Ford Duratec), £50K late 2013.
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- 2013 September: Caterham showed the 'AeroSeven' concept
at the Singapore Grand Prix.
It was fitted with a Ford 4-cyl. engine, 6-speed manual gearbox, and
all independent suspension.
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