Check this out! I never knew there was an R/C Lotus Seven ... wouldn't have expected chopper R/C company Hirobo to have made one.

HIROBO R/C LOTUS SEVEN S4 STORY

[Edited on 26/6/07 by scudracer]

I'm glad i did'nt model mine on that.

thats not a seven it looks more like a beech buggy of some sort they should stick to choppers

That's a series 4. Good thing Caterham went back to S3

I believe in the late 60s/early 70s there was this dune buggy craze that spilled over to the end of the 80s. R/C cars followed this trend. If you check out what Tamiya, Kyosho and others introduced, it seemed almost exclusively to be 2WD & 4WD Off-Road buggies.

The Lotus Seven tried to tap into this craze by making the Seven Series 4 more buggy-like. Unfortunately, for us Seven fans it looks pretty ... well let me just say its an acquired taste!

Even the real 'plastic bathtub' Lotus 7 S4 wasn't quite as fugly as that R/C model.

http://www.motorbase.com/profiles/vehicle/picture.ehtml?i=12;p=-971223186
http://www.motorbase.com/profiles/vehicle/picture.ehtml?i=12;p=468517948

I'm sure I remember reading the design was more about saving Chapman some pennies rather than a design exercise.

It was the model he thought he'd sold to Caterham, except they'd cunningly stuck an 'and previous seven models' into the contract and went back to the S3 pretty much from day 1.

Ypu can see where the Dutton Phaeton got it's inspiration from, can't you!