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Origins
The Arrow range of 1966, led by the Hillman Hunter, was the Rootes Group's clean-sheet riposte to the Cortina: light, simply engineered, MacPherson struts up front, styled with transatlantic tidiness and built to be affordable in every sense. It did everything asked of it, won the 1968 London–Sydney Marathon against exotic opposition — a famous shock — and quietly became one of the most significant British exports ever: as the Paykan, assembled and later built in Tehran, the Hunter became Iran's universal car, produced there until 2005 and woven into the country's daily life for two generations. At home the range soldiered on under Chrysler ownership until 1979. The Hunter thus had two afterlives: a footnote in Britain, a national institution abroad.
Peykan chaldoran · Fabienkhan · CC BY-SA 2.5
