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Caterham started building variations on the Lotus 7 in 1973, when its founder bought the rights to the car from Colin Chapman. Caterham started as a Lotus dealership. In 2011, Team Lotus, which uses the Lotus name under license from Proton, bought...

The team will embed engineers and data analysis with the team for a future car

Caterham will sponsor the #41 Greaves Motorsport Zytek Z11SN-Nissan LMP2 car in the 24 Hours of Le Mans with an eye towards building its own car for the race in the coming years. Caterham F1 Reserve Driver Alexander Rossi, Tom Kimber-Smith and Eri...

Available on all variants of the Caterham Seven

In 1973 Lotus founder Graham Chapman sold the rights to his Lotus model Seven to Caterham Cars founder Graham Nearn who was a successful Lotus dealer. Forty years later, the Seven has become the definitive Caterham models. While it has experimente...

New engine will be a smaller turbo engine

Caterham is revealing new details about the car it is developing with Renault that will be both a new Caterham and new Alpine car. Caterham’s engineers have dropped plans to use Renault’s turbocharged 2.0-liter engine for its versi...

Caterham is the first team to reveal its 2012 Formula 1 car. The car has a quite complicated front wing with a fairly high nose, but the rear appears simple and more like old-school Formula 1.  Caterham has been working on the CT01 since ...

Gets updated livery with new version of green and yellow scheme

Caterham has taken the wraps off of its new CT03 Formula 1 chassis, and it will take to the track at Jerez later today. It is the first car to come out of Caterham's Leafield Technical Centre. The first thing most people will notice w...

Caterham has launched a new car called the Super R600 that is the brand's first supercharged, production Seven. Caterham says that they took what they learned from the SP/300.R prototype and applied it to the less expensive Seven.  Th...

Caterham might have launched a new partnership with Renault earlier this week, but it is still using Ford engines for versions of the Seven, at least for now. It also just launched a new Seven model called the Supersport R that ditches the 1.6-lit...

The French track of Magny Cours was the chosen spot to introduce the Superlight R300 model

Caterham saw the weekend of the Caterham Cup event at Magny Cours, France, as the ideal time to unveil its new R300 Race Car in Europe. Coordinated by the Caterham Competition France (CCF), the Cup series introduced the new European roadgoing Superli...

Caterham Cars will be presenting an entirely new model at next month’s Autosport International Show, in Birmingham, UK. Although the new model will still be faithful to the brand’s lightweight, minimalist DNA of the legendary Seven, the...