This Lotus Super Seven Adds Lightness

To be a bit pedantic CKDs were different from kit cars. for example numerous rootes group cars such as imps were exported to numerous countries such as here in New Zealand where they were assembled = Complete Knock Down. I think the kit car term is a slightly different concept. Great car though, got to be the ultimate driving experience or close to.

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The essence of our sport and passion. Bravo.

Just for the record, the Seven never was intended as a racer, just a cheap sport road car inspired by the previous generation of Lotus racers (mk VI).
At the time the Seven was realeased and marketed the Nine, then the Eleven and the Fifteen, were the racers.

Looks familiar as I have a 1962 Super 7, ex-SCCA national car with a 1500 punched out and converted for the road so I can vouch for the smiles per mile. Once in the car, it’s only a few feet of driving that brings on the smiles and whether city or country driving everyone always loves the car plus the fun factor of being right hand drive. Great video and awesome car, I’ll never get rid of mine.

@ GS, that is true! But it is called a “Donkervoort”. An impressive little car http://www.donkervoort.com/nl/

Lotus 7’s were also originally sold primarily in the UK as ‘ kit cars ‘ [ if you can call them that ] for the same reasons . Avoiding gobs of taxes VAT licensing fees etc along with saving Lotus a bundle in the process . To this day Catermam 7’s are still available worldwide but especially in the US in ‘ kit ‘ form as well [ Caterham purchased the rights to manufacture the 7 when Chapman misguidedly decided the car had reached the end of its sales ] As for the Lotus 7 ? My initial introduction came… Read more »