It was a truly clever plan. The Sunbeam-Talbot 90 saloon—that’s a sedan, Yank—had earned a remarkable reputation in the Alpine Trial and Monte Carlo Rally with what was really the first professional ...
Snaking through the Alps—on loose gravel and slick tarmac—in a four-door saloon car that weighs 3000 pounds and rides on skinny 16-inch tires is surely a supreme test of skill and resolve. But rally ...
FORdecades in the United Kingdom, the Rootes Group consolidated other automobile manufacturers. In 1935, a pair of independent automakers, Sunbeam and Talbot, was purchased and became part of the ...
For half a century now, it feels like the Talbot Sunbeam Lotus has never been the first car that comes to mind. If we’re talking iconic roadgoing hot hatches of the period, folk will inevitably think ...