Caterham is a British automotive manufacturing company known for creating lightweight sports cars. Caterham was originally a Lotus dealer, and when the Lotus Seven was discontinued, Caterham bought the rights to continue to manufacture the famous design. Over the years, Caterham has evolved the Seven design, selling the cars a fully built cars, or buildable kit cars. As well as the Seven, Caterham has created its own models such as the 21 and SP/300.R.