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 Caterham is a famous English brand that produces legendary sports cars. The talented sports car designer Colin Chapman used his developments and technologies in this production for forty years. Caterham

After the exclusive rights to produce the Lotus 7 were acquired by Caterhan Cars Ltd in 1973. (Lotus dealer), and the car was named Caterham Super Seven. Caterhan Cars, while continuing to improve the "seven", tried to preserve its unique spirit. Carbon fiber was used on some models, a material that has become the new chassis choice for Formula 1.

The modern Caterham Super Seven can be equipped with Rover engines with electronic injection, the lightest of which - 1.6 liters - produces 116 horsepower. And the top of the Super Seven family today is the 2-liter model with 190 hp. With. That is, despite all the weighting of the structure in recent years, its specific power not only has not decreased, but has also increased by 1.5-2.5 times! Caterham remains the bearer of the prototype - an extremely simple and dynamic car for country walks and club racing.

The annual production of "super sevens" is at the level of 650 vehicle kits. About 400 more similar machines per year are produced under license by the English company Westfield and the Dutch Donkervoort. Both are powered by Ford Zetec 1.8 engines. but Westfield also managed to squeeze a 4-liter V8 from Range Rover into the “cigar.”

The futuristic design Caterham 21 was first presented in Birmingham in 1994. It is a rear-wheel drive luxury car with a light alloy roadster body, based on the legendary Lotus Seven car.

Since 1999, in addition to the well-known Seven, VX Classic, 1.6 K-series, 1.8 K-series, 1.6 Superlight, 1.8 Superlight R, 1.8 VVC models, Caterham has offered the exclusive Silverstone, Classic Supersprint and racing Club Sport. The main volume of production falls on models with a 1.8-liter 165-horsepower Rover engine, which allows you to reach 100 km/h in 4.8 seconds.

Caterham presented a modification of its roadster, called Caterham R400. The number 400 in this case denotes the ratio of the number of horsepower per ton of vehicle weight. For the new product, equipped with a 200-horsepower 1.8-liter engine and weighing about 500 kilograms, this ratio is 400 horsepower per ton of weight. Such indicators provide the small roadster with excellent dynamics - the R400 accelerates from zero to one hundred kilometers per hour in 3.9 seconds. Especially for those who do not want to buy a ready-made car, Caterham also produces so-called “kit cars” - sets of all the necessary parts from which you can assemble an R400 in your garage.

The largest English automaker, MG Rover, together with Caterham Cars, have entered into a partnership agreement under which it is planned to install Rover engines in Caterham cars. Now all Caterham cars of the 2002 model year will use engines from the K-Series line, which includes 1.4-, 1.6- and 1.8-liter engines with power from 105 to 230 horsepower. By the way, the most powerful engine, 230 horsepower, will be installed on the Caterham Superlight R500.