Lotus Seven - Replicas

Replicas

Because of the Seven's relatively simple design, over 160 companies have offered replicas or Seven-type cars over the years. Such cars are often referred to as "sevenesque" or simply a "seven" or "se7en". Sometimes they are also called clubmans. Some examples are:

  • Almac Clubsprint, by Almac, a kit car manufacturer in New Zealand
  • Aries Motorsport Locoblade and Locost in the UK
  • Birkin S3, Lotus Seven replica
  • BWE Locust, Hornet, Grasshopper
  • Caterham owns the rights to reproduce the Lotus Super Seven
  • Cobra Cars produces the Garbí in Spain with the Yamaha R-1 180 hp engine.
  • Dala7 (a taller and wider design using Volvo parts)
  • DAX Rush by Dax Cars
  • Deman Motorsport
  • Donkervoort from Netherlands with Audi-Turbo-Engines
  • Elfin Sports Cars, Australian manufacturer of the Elfin Type 3 Clubman and Elfin T5 Clubman.
  • ESTfield from RaceTech (using Lada parts)
  • Esther
  • Fraser Clubman from Fraser Cars Ltd New Zealand
  • Hauser from Switzerland with BMW engines
  • Hispano AllemanHispano Alleman Mallorca
  • Höckmayr KFZ-Technik (HKT) from Germany also with Audi-Turbo-Engines
  • Irmscher 7 from Germany with Opel engines
  • Kaipan type 47 and 57. Replica from Czech Republic
  • Leitch Super Sprint, Leitch Industries, Invercargill, New Zealand
  • Lucalia Clubman, Lucalia Partnerships, Tasmania, Australia; mostly Japanese mechanicals (inline 4)
  • Luego Sports Cars Velocity and V8 Viento in UK
  • MAC #1
  • Marc Nordon Racing Vortx RT, RT+ and RT Super
  • McGregor Motorsport Limited New Zealand Lotus Seven replica kits and manufacturers
  • Mitsuoka Zero 1 from Toyama, Japan
  • MK Indy from MK Engineering (using Ford Sierra parts)
  • Pegasus Automobile from Germany.
  • PRB Clubman - manufactured Peter R Bladewell in Strathfield, Sydney Australia.
  • Raptor by Tornado Sports Cars
  • Several models from Robin Hood Engineering Ltd
  • Rotus, originally built with components from Japan in Hagerstown, Maryland. Since founder Chris Custer owned a Toyota dealership, the first cars used a Japanese spec 2litre twin cam Toyota engines and five speed gearbox. Many other engines were used over the years including Mazda rotary up to Rover/Buick V8s.
  • Southways Sports Cars SuperCat from Southways Automotive
  • Stalker V6 Clubman by Brunton Automotive USA Bradenton, Florida USA
  • Superformance S1 Roadster
  • Super Martin from France
  • Tiger Z100, Tiger R6, Tiger B6 & Tiger Cat E1 from Tiger Racing Ltd
  • The TSV, a Lotus 7 replica from Greece
  • Vindicator Sprint and the four seat Vindicator Family by Vindicator Cars
  • Westfield Sportscars produces several models
  • Donkervoort

Also see Category:Lotus Seven replicas

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