Caterham · 1994–1999
Caterham 21
The Caterham 21 is a two-seat roadster designed and hand built by Caterham Cars in the 1990s. It was based on the mechanicals of the Caterham 7 and was intended to be a more practical version of that car with more conventional sports car styling. The original car was announced at the 1994 British Motor Show to celebrate 21 years of Caterham Cars’ manufacture of the Lotus Seven. Styled by Iain Robertson and developed by a team under Jez Coates, the aim was to have a car that offered "the chance to experience Caterham motoring in a more practical format". The 21 was offered with a range of four-cylinder engines from 1.6 to 2.0 L, with 115–230 bhp (86–172 kW). Caterham originally intended to produce 200 cars per year, but in fact only 40 to 50 examples were actually made before the project was quietly shelved in 1999.
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UK vehicles on the road
6 licensed and 21 SORN (27 total) at 2025 Q4.
| Year (latest quarter) | Vehicles |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 30 |
| 2015 | 31 |
| 2016 | 30 |
| 2017 | 29 |
| 2018 | 30 |
| 2019 | 29 |
| 2020 | 29 |
| 2021 | 29 |
| 2022 | 28 |
| 2023 | 28 |
| 2024 | 27 |
| 2025 | 27 |
DfT/DVLA VEH0120 vehicle licensing statistics, source ↗, Open Government Licence v3.0. Small counts are rounded or suppressed at source.
Sources
- Wikidata / Wikipedia profiles — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/cars/Q5051897CC0 / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterham_21CC BY-SA 4.0 · Intro text © Wikipedia contributors; revision 1363828702 · retrieved 2026-10-03
- DfT/DVLA VEH0120 licensing statistics — https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/vehicle-licensing-statistics-data-tablesOpen Government Licence v3.0
- Car Model Index — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/Compiled record. Sources that do not permit reuse are not copied; this index is credited instead.