The Seven S4 Is Lotus’s Mostly Forgotten Attempt To Update An Icon | Carscoops carscoops
, as Lotus founder Colin Chapman sold the rights to the iconic sports car to Caterham’s Graham Nearn in May 1973. But the car Nearn inherited five months before the first oil crisis kicked off didn’t look like the anniversary Sevens Caterham will wheel out this year to commemorate the half-century celebration.
That S3 had ushered in a host of technical improvements suggested by Graham Nearn, who at that point was still several years away from owning the rights to the Seven, but was the sole distributor for the car, and had a fair bit of clout with Lotus as a result. Advances included fitting Ford’s new crossflow engines from the Cortina, the stronger, wider rear axle from the Ford Escort Mexico, and braking and suspension upgrades.
The S4 wasn’t the total flop it’s sometimes accused of being. Lotus sold 664 in less than three years, but then it had hoped to move 2,000 every year. And Chapman was already confident that Lotus was going to miss that target by a mile when he decided in the summer of 1971 to bring the axe down, though the car lived on for another year and a bit while the company used up its parts supply.
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