Savings were allowed
10/17/2019
At the end of the sixties, affordable cars were very popular. There was the Spark Beetle, for example, and manufacturers were generally outdoing each other with particularly inexpensive cars. Sunbeamdid not want to be left behind and offered a fully-fledged automobile at a low price with the basic Imp.
The customer immediately noticed that the red pencil had to be applied everywhere. Inside, they looked into empty caves where the more expensive versions had additional instruments. And the door lock on the right was simply missing. The Imp could only be locked from the outside on the driver's side.
Sunbeam was not alone in this, however; leaving out the lock on the passenger side was a common method of saving a few marks, pounds or francs during production. As a result, the call for central locking, which was unthinkable in this class anyway, did not even arise ...
Incidentally, we published a driving report on the Sunbeam Imp a few years ago.
