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Caterham unveiled at the 2013 Singapore Grand Prix the first images of the AeroSeven Concept, which is meant to show the company’s future in styling and engineering. It hints at the shape for the Renault co-developed, next generation Alpine due in 2016. The AeroSeven is shows what is possible when all of Caterham Group’s disparate companies work together on one car.
The actual chassis for the AeroSeven is Caterham’s CSR platform that it uses on some of its Seven models, but the body and interior are entirely made from carbon fiber.
The shape of the AeroSeven is radically simple. The front is a simple oval with a massive with a separate yellow grill in the middle. Tiny LED headlights are hung from the top, but otherwise, the front looks like a wide-open mouth sucking in air to cool the engine. The hood is set well back from the front grill, which allows for the front to be made from a single piece of material.
The profile is equally simple with long, straight lines extending from the front to the rear. The area around the passenger compartment is cut away and has two lines created by blue LEDs. Honestly, they look a little tacked on like Caterham just glued some Christmas lights to the side of the body, but it is not a major portion of the design. There is also a small portion of the side where the body is completely cut away to expose the passenger compartment. Further back, the car’s major vertical elements are the roll hoops. There is no windshield.
The rear is as simple as the rest of the car with LED taillights just below the roll hoops, and the rest is bare carbon fiber.
The interior is as pared down as the rest of the car. It is entirely made from carbon fiber, including the seats. There are no physical instruments, but there is an LCD screen that displays the speedometer and gear selected.
The AeroSeven is the first Caterham road car to have traction control and launch control, which is controlled from the interior.
According to Caterham the concept hits 100km/h in less than four seconds from a 2.0-liter Ford Duratec that was modified to electronic throttle bodies, a revised cylinder head and new cams to make 237hp (240ps) and 153lb-ft (207Nm) of torque and six-speed manual transmission.
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Caterham was established in 1973 by Graham Nearn, after having been one of the most important dealers of Lotus 7 cars throughout the 1960’s. Once Caterham as an independent manufacturer was established, and given Lotus’ intention of discontinuing the ‘7’ model, Nearn acquired the design rights of this car from Chapman (still in 1973) so as to carry on with the production as a Caterham model. The Caterham Cars company was wholly base... more
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