Lotus Seven - Lotus Seven in The Media

Lotus Seven in The Media

• An S2 Lotus Seven (registration KAR 120C) driven by star Patrick McGoohan was featured in the 1967–1968 television series The Prisoner. The registration plate is still held by Caterham Cars.. The car in the final episode Fall Out, was actually a Series 3. However the car required special handling, and the actor who was originally hired to drive the car to Number 6's home (In Buckingham Place, London) couldn't handle it so they had to bring in the Chief Engineer of Lotus (who ended up as the head of the company who took the Lotus 7 on when Lotus decided to get rid of it) and it is him who is seen delivering the car to Number 6's doorstep.

• Marvel Comics superhero Wolverine drives a Lotus Seven.

• A Lotus Seven appears as one of the steal-able cars in Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, under the name "Locust". Ironically enough there is a replica of the Lotus Seven made under the same name and another version made under the trade name of the Locost.

• In the second game of Sonic Drift series, Tails uses a car called the "Whirlwind S7", which is a reference to the Lotus S7.

• In the game Rage Racer the Age Pegase (top notch handling) is a reference to the Lotus S7

• A Super Seven is driven by the character Sena Wakabayashi in the anime series You're Under Arrest.

• Sōichi Sugano from the anime éX-Driver drives a Super Seven. This series contains several Lotus models, but the Seven is most prominent.

• Jim Skylark from the anime Gate Keepers drives a Super Seven with license plate AEGIS 02. In the series he debuted in the car, outrunning Shun Ukiya's Toyota Sports 800 on the freeway.

• On the "Is born" series on the Discovery Channel Mark Evans built a Westfield Sportscars SEi from a kit.

• In the BBC TV Series Top Gear, Richard Hammond, James May and Jeremy Clarkson were at Knockhill Racing Circuit in Fife, Scotland "racing" against The Stig. The race was not a normal race as the winner was deemed to be the team who arrived on the race track and started their engine first. The Stig was based at the Caterham Factory in Surrey racing a factory built and the three presenters were actually at the racetrack building the car from scratch. The race was in order to determine whether it was quicker to build a car from scratch or to actually purchase and drive one from the factory. In the race the team won (mainly because of the low capacity of the Lotus 7's petrol tank - and because the Stig was unable to answer any questions about the car when stopped by police just as he was about to win), however the build quality of the presenter's car could not be determined.