Caterham Cars is a manufacturer of specialist lightweight sport cars based in Caterham, Surrey, England and part of the British motor industry. Their only current model , the Cater ham 7 is a direct evolution of the Series 3 Lotus Seven designed by Colin Chapman and originally launched in 1968. A track only car the SP/300 , is to be relesed during 2010. On 27 April 2011, Team Lotus owner Tony Femandes announced that his team had purchased Caterham. Since 2006 Caterham Cars has been run by an ex-Lotus management team led by Ansar Ali (CEO) and Mark Edwards (COO).Although the Seven has always been popular with enthusiasts outside of the UK marketplace, export of the Seven to other markets has increasingly been limited by homologation, safety and emissions regulations in the modern era. As a result, the chassis/engine combinations, specifications, pricing and kit-form availability vary widely between countries.
Series 5 (s3)
The most popular retains the same dimensions and layout of the Lotus 7 Series 3.
Series 5 (Sv)
Caterham introduced this variant in 2000 to accommodate large drivers (space is restricted in the S3 for drivers 6 ft (1.8m) tall. Although visually very similar to the S3 the SV is longer taller and wider and has significantly more space for taller and broader drivers with the benefits of more luggage space , a larger fuel tank and more stability. The SV chassis is 25 kg( 55Ib) heavier than the s3.
CSR
The CSR chassis comes in two basic trims which mirror those of the S3/Sv cars. The "basic" CSR has a road and touring oriented space with full windscreen and weather equipment . This is available as the CSR200 (200bhp) or CSR260 (260bhp). The CSR Superlight (also 260 bhp) is the current Caterham performave flagship strips away the windscreen , intergrated dash and other comfort oriented components for maximum performance with specialist " Dynamic dampers' added to improve its ahead of many fo the wold's most expensive performance cars.
Motor cacing
Because of its relatively high power to weight ratio and its exceptional Lotus heritage and heandling the Caterham 7 has been a favoutite among club racers since the begining of its career. In the United Kingdom and elasewhere , the Caterham 7 is used in a variety of one make series and sports car championships, both regional and national . However , the Caterham has proven so successful against bigger and more powerful sports cars that it has been banned from F|A competitions and most international racess, coingin the phrase 'too fast to race.
From 2012 the F1 tean also owend by Tony Fernandes, know as Team Lotus in the 2011 season will race as Caterham F1 tean maintain the Green and Yellow livery previously used when Team Lotus in 2011. From 2012 Caterham will face in GP2 with the under Caterham Racing which was rebfanded from Caterham Air Asina team that raced in 2011. The tean will race under the same Green and Yellow livery as Formula team .
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