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Including the Bricklin on its list of "The 20 Dumbest Cars of All Time", Autoblog wrote, "Memo to the world: When an automobile executive starts a new car company and proposes to name the car after himself, run like a stag in the opposite direction, lock your check book and credit cards in a safe and ask your best friend to keep the combination ...
The Sunbeam 1000 HP was the first non-American car to run on Daytona Beach for a land speed record attempt. On 29 March 1927, Henry Segrave drove the car to a new land speed record of 203.79 miles per hour (327.97 km/h), the first car to reach a speed over 200 mph (320 km/h). [2]
This category is for vehicles made by the Sunbeam Motor Car Company ... Pages in category "Sunbeam vehicles" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 ...
The first production car branded Sunbeam was not Marston and Cureton's but a car designed and developed by a young architect, Maxwell Mabberly-Smith, powered by a single-cylinder 2 3 ⁄ 4 horsepower De Dion engine. Described as a "sociable" it carried two passengers sitting close together facing the roadside from above a central belt-drive.
The sportiest Sunbeam was the Rapier H120 model, though this shared its specially tuned Holbay engine with the Hillman Hunter GLS. Sunbeam Arrow, Sunbeam Break de Chasse, Sunbeam Hunter, Sunbeam Minx, Sunbeam Sceptre and Sunbeam Vogue were used for export markets where the Sunbeam name was more familiar or deemed more likely to succeed.
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. A. Sunbeam aircraft engines (14 P) V. Sunbeam vehicles (1 C, 25 P) Pages in category "Sunbeam Motor ...
The 3.5-litre car was re-fitted with a lighter, modern body. His co-driver would again be Just-Émile Vernet. [12] Talbot returned to Le Mans after a 2-year absence, albeit in far different circumstances. The Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq company was being broken up and Venetian émigré Anthony Lago was targeting the Parisian concern. As director at ...
The Sunbeam 3-litre is a 26 long cwt (2,912 lb; 1,321 kg) [1] sports car introduced by Sunbeam in October 1925 [3] at the London Motor Show, [2] and was offered from 1926 until 1930. It was seen at the time and subsequently as the retort of Louis Hervé Coatalen , Sunbeam's energetic chief engineer, to the Bentley 3 Litre which by then was ...