To understand the Sunbeam Tiger, you need some understanding of the Sunbeam Alpine sports car. From 1959 to 1968, The Rootes Group, a family-owned British company, produced the two-seat Alpine, on ...

After reading about the Honda Goldwing-powered Hillman Imp, you may be asking yourself what that little car actually is. Here is a little backstory on the Imp for the uninitiated: It’s a rear-engine ...

The Sunbeam Tiger is a factory V-8-swapped version of the Rootes Group's Sunbeam Alpine roadster, built from 1964-1967 by Jensen Motorcars and powered by the Ford Windsor V-8. The Sunbeam Alpine, ...

The Sunbeam Alpine was a sports car developed by the British manufacturer Rootes Group from 1953 to 1955 and then again from 1959 to 1968. Related Articles Me & My Car: East Bay owner keeps ’91 ...

If you're going to get into British cars, you might as well forget about those dime-a-dozen BMC/British Leyland products and dive into the bewildering labyrinth of Rootes Group marques and models ...

Selling identical cars under different brands was a staple of Hillman owner the Rootes Group as well as its British Motor Corporation rival Dr. Andrew Roberts is a cinema and motoring historian whose ...

This Rootes Group model, whose chief British rival was the Ford Cortina Mk2, was spacious, elegant and sophisticated for its time ...