Caterham

Small UK sports-car builder of the Caterham 'Seven' (1973+), which was originally the 'Lotus 7' (1957+). The Seven is available as a CKD kit, or fully built for +£3K (2011) more.
 
2007: Caterham switched from the late Rover 'K-series' engine, used since 1991, to the Ford 1600 'Sigma' (115ps to 150ps) as the base engine for the Seven.
 
2011 April: 'Team Lotus', the F1 team, bought Caterham Cars.
2012: 'Team Lotus', was renamed the 'Caterham F1 Team' for 2012, thus settling a dispute with the 'Lotus Renault' F1 team that began when Lotus (as linked to Lotus road-cars) joined the 'Renault' (pre 2011) F1 team for 2011.
 
2012, November 5: Caterham Cars and Renault announced a joint venture to produce a new sports car to be built in Dieppe. (The announcement also revealed that, at the time, "Caterham Group [employed] over 500 people across the four arms of the business: Caterham Cars (150), Caterham F1 Team (280), Caterham Technology & Innovation (40) and Caterham Composites (30).")
(2014: Renault bought out Caterham's stake in developing the new 'Alpine'.)
 
2013, July: The Caterham Seven '620R', replacing the Superlight R500, was at the Goodyear Festival of Speed -- 2.0-litre supercharged 310bhp (Ford Duratec), £50K late 2013.
 
2013 September: Caterham showed the 'AeroSeven' concept at the Singapore Grand Prix. It was fitted with a Ford 4-cyl. engine, 6-speed manual gearbox, and all independent suspension.