This staggeringly rare hatchback had a troubled gestation but provided agreeable, if unspectacular, family transport for a modest price Dr. Andrew Roberts is a cinema and motoring historian whose ...

The Chrysler Sunbeam was a middling shitbox of a compact hatchback built by Chrysler Europe. It was based on the larger Hillman Avenger, which had been in production since 1970. In order to boost ...

IN summer 1977 a gallon of five star petrol cost 79p – but not for long with inflation running at 15.8 per cent and interest rates of seven per cent. In America, the first Apple II computer went on ...

WARTHILL rally driver Tim Simpson is hoping to shine in his late father’s 35-year-old Chrysler Sunbeam this season. Simpson raced the car, which was made famous by his dad Brian during the early 1980s ...

The Sunbeam made no claims to innovation in its heyday, for its raison d’être was straightforward but good-looking transport at a modest cost. It was also the last wholly British-designed car to ...