AROnline » Sunbeam http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs Made in Britain... Thu, 23 May 2013 21:42:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The cars : Chrysler Sunbeam http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/cars/chrysler-talbot/sunbeam/the-cars-chrysler-sunbeam/ http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/cars/chrysler-talbot/sunbeam/the-cars-chrysler-sunbeam/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2011 20:17:32 +0000 Matthew Hayward http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/?p=14724 Just 19 months from conception to introduction, the Sunbeam was the result of a crash development programme for Chrysler in order to secure UK government funding. It worked, too… and emerged from Whitley as a fine little supermini. Of course, it truly came of age once a Lotus engine was installed… The sweet escape By [...]

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