born out of the french parent 's takeover of chrysler 's deeply-troubled european activities in the late 1970s , peugeot talbot inherited in the uk , for example , the ill-fated linwood plant in scotland and lacklustre models such as the hillman avenger , sunbeam and alpine - plus a valuable contract supplying peykans -lrb- essentially rebadged hillman hunters -rrb- to iran in quantities which at their peak hit 100,000 a year .