All through the 1930s, the Rootes brothers snapped up cash-strapped manufacturers, Humber among them. At the outbreak of WWII ...

Rootes Group cars are a niche within a niche of a niche. You’re not likely to see a Hillman parked next to a Sunbeam at any car show. Unless it’s a car show like the Rootes Group swap meet in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hairy chested” is a trope often used to describe British sports cars of the postwar period. For some, it was appropriate, as anyone who has driven an Austin-Healey 3000 will tell you, because you need ...

The Rootes Group was taken over by Chrysler, but when it also got into difficulties, Peugeot stepped in. Then in 2002, the French brand decided it no longer needed the archives and was set to ...

Rootes Group was made up of Hillman, Humber, Sunbeam and Singer; platforms spanned each range, with Hillman selling the basic car, Sunbeam adding a bit more sportiness, ...

The Rootes Group didn’t have such an engine, though, or the resources to develop one. The company approached Ferrari to design an inline-four-cylinder engine, ...

With 150 or so teams in the sweaty, agriculturally scented summer air here at Buttonwillow racetrack in Merle Haggard country, the vehicle inspections at the third annual Arse-Sweat-a-Palooza 24 ...

For decades in Britain, the Rootes Group consolidated automobile manufacturers. In 1935, a pair of independent automakers, Sunbeam and Talbot, were purchased and became part of the Rootes Group.