Caterham 7 Wikipedia. Driver Infrarrojo Usb there. The Caterham 7 or Caterham Seven is a super lightweight sports car produced by Caterham Cars in the United Kingdom. It is based on the Lotus Seven, a lightweight sports car sold in kit and factory built form by Lotus Cars, from 1. After Lotus ended production of the Lotus Seven, Caterham bought the rights to the design, and today make both kits and fully assembled cars. The modern Caterham Seven is based on the Series 3 Lotus Seven, though developed to the point that no part is the same as on the original Lotus. Various other manufacturers offer a sports car in a similar basic configuration, but Caterham owns various legal rights to the Lotus Seven design and name. KuMqOQQA/hqdefault.jpg' alt='2006 R1 50Th Anniversary Edition For Sale' title='2006 R1 50Th Anniversary Edition For Sale' />BibMe Free Bibliography Citation Maker MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard. Browse all new and used Commemorative Collectible Rifles for sale and buy with confidence from Guns International. The company has taken legal action in the past in order to protect those rights, although in South Africa, it lost its case against Birkin on the basis that it never obtained the claimed rights from Lotus. HistoryeditColin Chapman had been a Royal Air Force pilot, studied structural engineering and went on to become one of the great innovators in motorsports design founded Lotus Engineering Ltd. His vision of light, powerful cars and performance suspensions guided much of his development work with the basic design philosophy of, Simplify, then add lightness. His Lotus 7 had its debut at the 1. Earls Court Motor Show in London. They were priced at 1,0. R1 50Th Anniversary Edition For Sale' title='2006 R1 50Th Anniversary Edition For Sale' />It weighed only 7. 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In 1. 97. 3, Lotus decided to shed its kit car image and concentrate on limited series motor racing cars and up market sports cars. As part of this plan, it sold the rights to the Seven to its only remaining agents, Caterham Cars in England and Steel Brothers Limited in New Zealand. At the time the current production car was the Series 4, but when Caterham ran out of the Lotus Series 4 kits in 1. Series 3, as the Caterham Seven. The modern day Roadsports and Superlights in narrow bodied chassis form are the direct descendants of this car and therefore of the original Lotus 7. Chassis and suspensioneditAs with the Lotus Six before it, the original Lotus Seven used an extremely light space frame chassis with stressed aluminium body panels. Although the chassis has had numerous modifications to strengthen it and accommodate the various engine and suspension setups and to try to find more cockpit space for the occupants, this basic formula has remained essentially the same throughout the Sevens life with the exception of the Series 4, which used steel for the cockpit and engine bay and glassfibre for the bodywork. Download Graphics Programs In C Examples. Early cars used a live rear axle, initially from various Fords, later from the Morris Ital. De Dion rear suspension was introduced in the mid 1. The modern Superlight employs adjustable double wishbone suspension with front anti roll bar and a de dion rear axle, located by an A frame and Watts linkage. The Caterham 7 range was based exclusively on this Series 3 chassis until 2. SV Series V, or Special Vehicle chassis was released, aimed at accommodating the increasing number of prospective buyers who could not fit comfortably in the Series 3 cockpit. The SV chassis offers an extra 1. Roadsport and Superlight variants. The SV chassis subsequently provided the basic dimensions for the Caterham CSR. The suspension was completely redesigned, bringing the front suspension inboard, using pushrods, and replacing the De Dion rear axle with a lighter, fully independent, double wishbone layout with new coildamper units. Additional chassis modifications resulted in a 2. The CSR was released in October 2. Cosworth Duratec engine and is currently available from the factory in either 2. W or 2. 60 bhp 1. W form. EngineseditEarly cars used the Lotus Twin. Cam engine subsequently manufactured by Vegantune, followed by Ford cross flow engines. The first Cosworth BDR engines appeared around 1. W form, followed by 1. W versions three years later. By 1. 99. 0 the top of the range engine had become the two litre Vauxhall HPC, as fitted to the Vauxhall Calibra, putting out 1. A few HPC Evolution models were built with engines developed by Swindon Race Engines producing between 2. W and 2. 35 bhp 1. W. In 1. 99. 3 Caterham created the JPE special edition named for Formula 1 driver Jonathan Palmer by using a two litre Vauxhall Touring Car engine, putting out around 2. W and reducing weight to around 5. The JPE was quoted at 0 6. Jonathan Palmer at the wheel, set a 0 1. Around 1. 99. 7 the cross flow range was replaced by 8v and 1. Vauxhall units which, in various guises lived on until the end of the VX powered Caterham Classic, in 2. The Rover. K series made its appearance in 1. Metro GTi. This engine became the backbone of the range for the next 1. The 1. 6 litre K series appeared in 1. Superlight range, a range that successfully focussed initially on reducing weight and subsequently on bespoke tuning of the K series to ever higher outputs. Weight was saved by removing the spare wheel and carrier, carpets, heater and often the windscreen replaced with an aeroscreen, hood and doors. Lightweight Tillet GRP seats were usually fitted along with carbon fibre front wings and nosecone note however that items such as heaters and windscreens could still be specified by the Superlight customer if they so wanted. Wide track suspension was added to the superlight, increasing the track at the front to match that at the back. The later Superlight R offered the dry sumped VHPD Very High Performance Derivative variant on the 1. K series. Output was now up to around 1. W, in a car that now weighed as little as 4. Three years later Caterham took the same concept to a new level and created the iconic Superlight R5. Rover 1. 8 litre K series but now tuned by Minister Racing Engines to around 2. W at 8,6. 00 rpm in a car weighing just 4. The R5. 00 was initially available in kit form, but quickly became a factory build only item. Quoted performance figures still make impressive reading 0 1. EVO magazine quotes 8. Perhaps unsurprisingly, such a stressed engine required frequent refreshing in order to keep it on the road and a series of engine revisions was undertaken throughout the R5. This culminated in 2. Plus Tax Gamestop. Caterham of all the R5. EVO was bored out by Minister to 1,9. W. At 4. 2,0. 00, the R5. EVO sold poorly it is widely believed that just three examples were sold. It did however succeed in setting a series of performance car benchmarks several of which last to this day the 0 1. Ferrari Enzo costing ten times as much and, until the end of 2. EVO magazine around the Bedford Autodrome West Circuit, ahead of a Porsche Carrera GT. Only the Radical SR3 1. R5. 00 EVO. 7After the demise of Rover and Powertrain, Caterham started the process of phasing out the Rover K series engine and replacing them with Ford engines the Sigma engine for Roadsports and the 2. Duratec engines for the more powerful Superlight and CSR ranges. Although Caterhams website suggests that there are a few models such as the Superlight R3. K series engine, this migration is largely complete. Caterham have had something of a tentative relationship with the installation of motorbike engines into their cars. Since 2. 00. 0, a Canadian firm has been selling Caterham 7 models using the GSXR1. Suzuki Hayabusa. It reportedly does 0 6.