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| | The Plymouth Sunbeam, Alpine, Solara, Rapier, and Minx |
 | | Once again, is was often the way with Chrysler Europe cars, to look at the Sunbeam its history begins some years before its introduction, with the launch of the Hillman Avenger (later to become the Plymouth Cricket for the US market) in 1970. |
 | | The Avenger proved to be quite successful (although the Cricket wasn't), although falling sales and draining large sums of cash to develop new front-wheel drive cars (the Simca 1100-based Alpine and Horizon) meant that Chrysler UK had a large cashflow problem by the mid-1970s, as did the parent company. |
 | | The Alpine was much unlike any other UK Chrysler car that had gone before; it was front-wheel drive, and a hatchback, similar to the Simcas of years before. |
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