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 ...

You hear a lot of guys bragging about their cars' mighty power output, claiming 500 horses at the wheels and so on, but how many actually roll up to a real-world dynamometer test? Armand did! Armand ...

Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! You want an exotic European Hell Project, do you? Well, who doesn't? In ...

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 ...

Here's a at-a-glance guide to the rise of fall of car making at the historic Ryton site, on the outskirts of Coventry. 1939: Rootes Group starts work on a new factory at Ryton. 1940: Rootes at Ryton ...

The biggest weak point of the 1960s Sunbeam Alpine was its lack of power from its stock pushrod four-cylinder engine. The obvious cure was the one developed by Rootes Group dealers on our side of the ...

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