There are a number of different ways that people feed their need for speed. In the automotive world, it’s often true that to go very very fast consumers will need to spend very very much.

This is partially what drew Lotus Super 7 owner Geoff Wise to his redLotus, as seen in the newest episode ofPetrolicious. In whatPetroliciousis billing as its first feature film on a kit car ...

The Lotus 7 is perhaps one of the most copied sports cars in existence--derivatives in kit form have been available from many manufacturers for decades, including the Caterham version this car is ...

My father raced an Austin-7 ... kit car industry. An early Lotus Seven. Thesupermat [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons. One name from that period which embodies both Formula One and kit cars ...

Called the Millennium 7, this South African designed and built car based on the classic Lotus 7 is now more readily available ... a former chief mechanic for Honda F1 - to join their team. So far ...

The Lotus Seven was initially marketed as a kit car ... rockets that the cars would quickly become. The initial lack of excitement was soon overcome when the Lotus Super Seven arrived in 1961 ...

visceral motoring—alongside providing buyers with the choice between turn-key cars or do-it-yourself kits. The latter continued Colin Chapman's legacy at Lotus of delivering the Seven in kit ...

Kit cars versus production ... It is, after all, a direct descendant of the Lotus Super 7, one of the best-loved Lotus cars of all time. And if any vehicle epitomizes classic British sports ...

With the hungry and extremely basic Lotus Seven (a road legal car that could be used for club racing), the super-sporty ... of making his cars available to the general public in kit form, wherein ...