The Hillman Hunter was a clean-sheet car developed to replace the Minx and Super Minx, and tidy-up and modernise the Rootes range in the process.
It was a very conservative-looking car, but solidly engineered, and was of above-quality build in comparison with its British saloon car rivals of the time.
The Rootes Arrow range was conceived as a smart-suited replacement for the Audax range of Minx/Super Minx models. Launched in 1966, the new range was spearheaded by the Hillman Hunter […]
The Rootes Arrow was one of the automotive industry’s most badge-engineered cars, but the Paykan version, built by Iran Khodro, was so much more. Engineering and full production of the […]
Conceived as an advanced replacement for the Audax range and created with the same set of goals as the Hillman Imp, the rear-engined Rootes Swallow could have been the Group’s […]
Taken from the first-ever issue of What Car? magazine in November 1973, this test makes for a fascinating read and is a great insight into how road tests used to […]
The Arrow range was conceived to be a conventional replacement for the Audax Rootes cars – and as such, was designed in Hillman, Humber and Singer versions. The early styling […]
In design Roy Axe’s designs feature heavily on this website, and it was his Sunbeam Rapier that saw him rise to prominence… April 1964 May 1964 Full size clay, January […]
The Rootes Group were a prime proponent of the art of badge engineering; take a basic car and apply several marque names to it in order to cover several market […]
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