These days the Ford MK2 Escort has been making the news, what with Ken Block ripping around in one lately. That's great! And it reminded me of another old, little rear-drive rally car that sounded ...

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 ...

This is your chance to own not only a pioneer of the hot hatch segment, the 1980 Talbot Lotus Sunbeam, but also a new car. This is not a contradiction in terms, although it may seem so. The car is ...

If you though that the original Volkswagen Golf GTI is the first hot hatchback ever, think again. That model only popularized the genre, but it didn't invent it. As a prime example of what I'm trying ...

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Even four decades since the last one was registered, the Talbot Sunbeam Lotus seems a wonderfully daft idea. Time has done nothing to dull the cult appeal. Lotus has done plenty of consultancy and ...

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 ...