Caterham
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Caterham's electric sports car is targeted to arrive with a curb weight of less than 2,624 pounds.
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Caterham Project V electric sports car teased
Caterham will reveal its electric sports car in July.
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Caterham reveals electric version of iconic Seven roadster
Caterham will reinvent the iconic Lotus Seven for the electric era.
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Caterham plans electric sports car with design by Anthony Jannarelly
Caterham's new design chief is the man who penned the Jannarelly Design-1.
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Caterham has a new owner
Malaysian businessman Tony Fernandes has sold Caterham to the company's Japanese distributor.
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Caterham returns with 1970s-inspired Super Seven 1600
Caterham's newest model mimics the Sevens of old but with none of the drawbacks.
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A Caterham is one of the purest expressions of automotive driving heaven. The tiny, bare-bones British sports car is a nimble, open-air, lightweight machine that leaves you fully engaged in the act of driving. It's the sports car distilled to its basics. So, for Jeremy Clarkson to call the Ford GT a "mad Caterham," it means the man is heaping massive praise on the latest supercar from the Blue Oval. Clarkson spent some quality time with the new Ford while filming for the new season of the Amazon Prime series "The Grand Tour." While he, like many of us, felt that the GT could be a bit soft due...
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Caterham Seven SuperSprints sell out in just seven hours
Caterham set a company sales record with its limited-edition Seven SuperSprint, selling all 60 of them in seven hours at the Goodwood Revival. Well, that didn’t take long. All 60 limited-edition Caterham Seven SuperSpints sports cars that debuted last Friday at the Goodwood Revival in England...
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Caterham still dreaming of mainstream sports car
Caterham, best known for its continuation of the Lotus Seven legacy, was until 2014 set to launch a mid-engine sports car that could challenge the Porsche 718 Cayman and Lotus Elise. The car was being developed in partnership with Renault which planned its own version to be sold under the Alpine...
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This is Caterham’s canned Cayman rival
Not long ago, the backers of Caterham planned to turn the niche British sports car brand into a full-line automaker selling sedans and SUVs as well as sports cars. The first of Caterham’s more mainstream models was to be a small sports car based on a new platform developed with Renault...
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Iconic Seven chassis made lighter thanks to bicycle tech
Now that it’s no longer wasting effort and money on a failed Formula One program, British sports car brand Caterham has returned to what it does best: building affordable, lightweight track cars based on the iconic Lotus Seven chassis. Recently, Caterham teamed up with bicycle frame...
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Get ready to build your own Lego Caterham
Caterhams are basically do-it-yourself affairs right out of the box, but now the fun folks at Lego have created a downsized, hyper-detailed model that could be assembled on your kitchen counter. The Lego Caterham Super Seven model is remarkably accurate for something made out of plastic bricks. It...
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Despite raising enough cash to finish off the 2014 Formula One World Championship, struggling team Caterham F1, now a separate unit to the Caterham sports car brand, looks like it’s lost all chance of racing this season and will now likely be sold off or disbanded altogether. Administrators for the team have confirmed that all assets, including last year’s race cars, will be put up for auction. “A series of online timed auction sales will be held covering the race equipment, engineering facility, F1 memorabilia, IT and communications, office furniture and as well as private...
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Caterham Initiating New Naming Scheme In Preparation For Expanded Lineup
In an effort to streamline its model names, Caterham will drop its existing Supersport, Roadsport and Superlight monikers in favor of a purely numerical scheme for its lineup of cars derived from the original Lotus Seven design. The latest 165 and 620R are the first models to be classified under...
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Marussia F1 Team Disbanded, Caterham Turns To Crowdfunding
Both the Marussia and Caterham Formula One teams have missed the last two races of the 2014 season due to financial difficulties, with the former still reeling from the Japanese Grand Prix accident that caused one of its drivers, Jules Bianchi, to suffer serious head injuries. The latest statement...
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Caterham F1 Team’s Future In Jeopardy
The Caterham F1 Team is currently on shaky ground following news Caterham Sports Limited (CSL), an entity that builds the actual cars for the team, is in administration and its administrator refusing to release the cars for transport to Austin, Texas for the upcoming Formula One United States Grand...
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Caterham Seven 480 And 360 Are Bound For The U.S.
Caterham announces two models designed for the U.S. market.
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Caterham Superlight R500 Ends Production
One of the world’s most exclusive super performance cars has reached the end of its run, six years after its introduction. With just 174 units built since 2008, the Caterham Superlight R500 is about twice as rare as the Bugatti Veyron—and nearly as quick at a fraction of the power and...
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Struggling Formula One team Caterham has been sold to a consortium of investors from Switzerland and the Middle East. The team, which has failed to make headway in F1 since joining the sport in 2012, will continue to compete under the Caterham banner and be run from the current headquarters in Leafield, England. Caterham F1 will also keep its Malaysian license for now, but will be controlled by its new owners with immediate effect. Christijan Albers, who drove for the previous Spyker F1 team, will work together with former HRT man Manfredi Ravetto in the day-to-day running of the team. They...
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Caterham To Be Sold?
Caterham, the British sports car manufacturer and Formula One team, is reportedly going up for sale, with an information memorandum said to have already been sent to potential investors in the Middle East. The information was first reported by The Edge Malaysia, citing an unnamed source...
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Battle Of The Lightweight Retro Brits: Morgan 3-Wheeler Vs. Caterham Seven 160
There are few truly elemental driving machines left in today’s world of crash tests, safety regulation, and general nannyism. But there are a few. These are two of them: The Morgan 3-Wheeler and the Caterham Seven 160. MUST SEE: Ford Sends A 2015 Mustang Into SPACE In this video, Evo’s...
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Renault And Caterham To Go Their Separate Ways On Joint Sports Car Project: Report
In 2012 French automaker Renault and British track car specialist and Formula One team Caterham confirmed plans to develop a new sports car platform that would spawn separate models for the two parties in 2016. Renault was to launch its sports car under a revived Alpine brand while Caterham’s...
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Kamui Kobayashi Takes Caterham 620R For A Spin At Silverstone: Video
One of Caterham’s new Formula One drivers Kamui Kobayashi has taken time out from his busy schedule to test the British sports car company’s Seven 620R at the legendary Silverstone race track in the U.K. The 620R is Caterham’s latest track weapon, and one of the most powerful...
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Superformance Signed As New U.S. Distributor For Caterham
Acquiring one of Caterham’s iconic Seven roadsters in the U.S. is about to become a much simpler process thanks to a new deal signed by the British sports car company and the distribution experts at Superperformance. Starting from the first of this month, Superperformance, based in Irvine...
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