SUNBEAM - name to make a comeback ???

[restoman]

http://www.sunbeam.uk.com/

[davidgt4]

Not quite a Tiger is it...

[Corpulent Tosser]

That is not a pretty car.

I have nothing against electric cars, for certain applications they are a good option, but I think it a shame to use the Sunbeam name for something like that.

[Blib]

That name takes me back. The very first brand new car that my dad ever bought was a Sunbeam Rapier in gold. One of these:



No B pillar. So cooooool ! I couldn't sleep the night before he picked it up.

runsofftoclassifieds.

[crankedup]

It's a travesty, why use a heritage name and launch a pig looking thing like that! There are hundreds of old unheard of car brand names collecting dust as well. Sunbeam my a*se!

[nicanary]

Blib said:

That name takes me back. The very first brand new car that my dad ever bought was a Sunbeam Rapier in gold. One of these:



No B pillar. So cooooool ! I couldn't sleep the night before he picked it up.

runsofftoclassifieds.

A mini-Plymouth Barracuda. And whenever I see the name Barracuda I can't stop thinking about that song which starts with a spoof advert where the voiceover calls it a Baccaruda. Anyone remember it?

[Russwhitehouse]

Horrid looking thing! Reminds me of Aston Martins foray into the foul with that stupid Cygnus thing.

[Dogwatch]

Yuk!

[Roy C]

No, this is a Sunbeam...

[restoman]

Roy C said:

No, this is a Sunbeam...

That is indeed a Sunbeam - strangely my 1968 Sunbeam Raper also sounded like that . . .

[medieval]

This should not be allowed to happen...................Hillman, possibly

[Andy 308GTB]

Nasty.


These are Sunbeams!

3 litre Twin Cams...


1000HP...

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

nicanary said:

A mini-Plymouth Barracuda. And whenever I see the name Barracuda I can't stop thinking about that song which starts with a spoof advert where the voiceover calls it a Baccaruda. Anyone remember it?

Summer Fun

by the Baccarudas

[marshalla]

I wonder if Peugeot have given them permission to use the name ?

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/1/UK000012581...

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

marshalla said:

I wonder if Peugeot have given them permission to use the name ?

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/1/UK000012581...

Might be from Sunbeam bicycles rather then Sunbeam cars?

[marshalla]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

marshalla said:

I wonder if Peugeot have given them permission to use the name ?

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/1/UK000012581...

Might be from Sunbeam bicycles rather then Sunbeam cars?

List of goods : Class 12 : Motor Vehicles.

[douglasb]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Summer Fun

by the Baccarudas

Your Plymouth Dealer is a dealing man.

<Early '60s American advert voice>

"I can't pronounce Baccaruda........."

</Early '60s American advert voice>

[marshalla]

douglasb said:

Your Plymouth Dealer is a dealing man.

<Early '60s American advert voice>

"I can't pronounce Baccaruda........."

</Early '60s American advert voice>

BABARARACUCUDADA!

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

marshalla said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

marshalla said:

I wonder if Peugeot have given them permission to use the name ?

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/1/UK000012581...

Might be from Sunbeam bicycles rather then Sunbeam cars?

List of goods : Class 12 : Motor Vehicles.

I meant the branding/trade mark rather than the product

[marshalla]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

marshalla said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

marshalla said:

I wonder if Peugeot have given them permission to use the name ?

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/1/UK000012581...

Might be from Sunbeam bicycles rather then Sunbeam cars?

List of goods : Class 12 : Motor Vehicles.

I meant the branding/trade mark rather than the product

The badge they're using is the "Sunbeam Coventry" trademark (applied for but not yet granted) : http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/1/UK000030897...
(also Class 12) but modified.

I'm not sure how the removal of the "Coventry" to use only "Sunbeam" would go down.