It’s almost as if the Chris Harris video and this news were destined to arrive together. Caterham has announced they will be making a new entry-level Seven with a target price of £17,000 (AU$26,750).
The new model doesn’t have a name yet, but will feature a Euro 6 compliant engine and is being made to celebrate 40 years of Caterham making the Seven. It will be launched around September with deliveries expected before the year is out.
Firm details will be announced in time and for now Caterham Cars CEO, Graham Macdonald, has this to say: “As we celebrate our 40th anniversary at Caterham, it feels good to be taking the brand right back to where it started. Colin Chapman designed the original Seven to be entirely ‘fit-for-purpose’—a racing car for the road with the driving experience at its heart.
“With that in mind, the new entry-level Seven will be uncomplicated, easy to run and, most important of all, an intuitive and exciting drive.â€
Sounds fantastic Graham, carry on.
7 replies on “New entry-level Caterham on way”
This is the most exciting thing I’ve heard since the toyota 86 pricing came out.
Finally we can see cars getting cheaper in Australia.
Well done Caterham.
Apologies if I’ve been misleading Jerry. Should the new entry-level Caterham come to Australia I don’t think for a moment that it will be as cheap as $26,750. That’s simply the conversion from the UK target price.
Oh right haha. I thought that was too good to be true.
Well, even if it was $50k it would be a very very tempting proposition.
Pity it won’t be $26,750 here – if it’s even available in Aus!
27K for a Caterham sign me up lol.
Reckon it’d be at least 40K if it comes to Australia.
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