Hillman

A rear-engined small saloon with an all-aluminium overhead-cam engine, built in a brand-new Scottish factory, the Imp was Rootes' brave answer to the Mini. A guide to why it was brilliant, why it struggled, the Sport, Stiletto and Chamois versions, its giant-killing motorsport record, and what an Imp costs today.

Nearly forty years of bread-and-butter family car, from the sidevalve saloons of the 1930s through the crisp Loewy-styled Audax Series cars to the last New Minx of 1970. A guide to the Minx generations, the Super Minx and the badge-engineered cousins, what to look for when buying, and what a Minx is worth today.

The Rootes Group was the family-run combine that built Hillman, Sunbeam, Humber, Singer and Commer vehicles from the late 1920s until Chrysler swallowed it in the 1960s. A guide to how two brothers from Kent assembled Britain's great badge-engineering empire, the pecking order of its marques, the classic Rootes cars worth knowing, and what each is like to own.

Rootes Group's last clean-sheet small saloon, sold as a Hillman, then a Chrysler, then a Talbot, with a yellow rally homologation Tiger in the middle of it. A guide to the lineage, the Tiger, what to look for, and what they're worth.