Plenty of modern performance cars claim race-bred DNA, but few deliver the unfiltered, back-to-basics intensity of a Caterham Seven. In an era of swelling curb weights and digital intervention, the Seven remains a stubborn outlier. Its roots trace back to Colin Chapman and the original Lotus Seven from the 1950s, and has evolved through the decades under the watch of Caterham, while always sticking to the same raw formula as the original.
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