Team Lotus purchases Caterham Cars

[cameraman]

I still haven't quite wrapped my brain around how Team Lotus, which doesn't build Lotuses, now owns Caterham Cars which competes with Proton built Lotus cars:confused: Of course Caterham did buy the rights to manufacture the Lotus Seven back in 1973. It is now the Caterham Seven Superlight R500. So now Team Lotus will be building and selling an original Lotus called a Caterham or something like that.

The idea is to use F1 tech on Caterhams with new models promised for the future. The idea is that they will be affordable sports cars within reach of folks with normal paychecks.

Here's an interesting line, Caterham promises to stick to Colin Chapman's legacy and founding principles. That could yield an interesting tag line, Caterham, the real Lotus.

Of course if any of us Yankees want to buy one we have to wrench the silly thing ourselves:shakehead

http://www.uscaterham.com/about/welcome.html

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http://www.teamlotus.co.uk/tl-notes/

This is kinda cool though...

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii35/Cynops/Caterham-Lotus.jpg

[pchall]

My dad and his buddies raced a 7 in the early 60s. When I check his records it apparently was sold in the 60s to help run an A sedan Mustang. I think that car made me a racing fan. It was just so cool that when dad brought the trailer home and parked it over night all the kids on the street would coming and insist on seeing it.

The 7 has to be the coolest car ever to run on this planet.

[opinionated ow]

this is going to throw a nice spanner in the works! Will it become the Caterham Team Lotus 7? Because as it stands the Team Lotus business which was always separate to Lotus Cars will now own the most iconic Lotus to exist bar the 49...