The Arrows FA1 was a Formula One car used by the Arrows Grand Prix International team during the first half of the 1978 Formula One season.

The FA1 was in reality a Shadow DN9, which Tony Southgate had designed for Shadow whilst working as a consultant for them. Southgate mistakenly believed that because he had designed the Shadow DN9 whilst working as a consultant (and not a Shadow employee) that he owned the intellectual rights to the Shadow DN9 design. Based on this misconception Arrows built the FA1, which was essentially a carbon copy of the DN9.

The FA1 was banned by the London High Courts partway through the 1978 season after a legal protest from the Shadow team, on the grounds was a blatant copy of the DN9. The judgement handed down ruled that over 70% of the FA1 was identical to the DN9 and that all four Arrows FA1's should be broken up by Arrows and their parts handed over to the Shadow team.

Knowing it would lose the case, Arrows hurriedly designed and built a new car, the A1, whilst the court case was being heard and did not miss a race.

Signed to drive for Arrows in their maiden season was talented young Italian Riccardo Patrese and veteran German Rolf Stommelen. Patrese debuted the new car at the second round of the year in Brazil where he placed an impressive tenth.

The FA1 was powered by a Ford Cosworth DFV 90º, 2993 cc V8 engine, located mid, longitudinally. It produced 480 bhp.

The Arrows A6 was a Formula One car which the Arrows team used to compete in the 1983 and 1984 Formula One seasons. It was designed by Dave Wass and powered by the Cosworth DFY V8 engine. 

The car was set to be Arrows' last normally aspirated car before the team made the jump into the turbo era halfway through 1984 by the introduction of the BMW-powered Arrows A7.

The A6 became a modest development of the reasonable A5, mostly focused on making it comply with the new regulations that banned refuelling and ground effects, in favour of a flat bottom with a diffuser as the back. An important decision in this respect was the centrally mounted fuel tank, in between the cockpit and the front of the engine, forced the engine to be mounted a little further back than would usually be wanted, giving the car an unusually heavy rear end.

The chassis itself was also compromised as the team continued with a aluminium honeycomb monocoque frame, judging a carbon fibre monocoque too expensive.

Aerodynamically, the car retained a flat nose and wide front wing as on the A5. At the rear, more similarities were obvious with the A5 as the rear wing continued to feature a central support pillar. The car's bodywork on the other hand did change throughout the car's racing career. One configuration saw the car appear with a traditional open engine cover, putting the engine's inlet trumpets into open air. A newer and undoubtedly more efficient design featured closed bodywork, with two inlet scoops on either side of the engine cover to take passing air into the engine to support combustion.

Drivers of the A6 at various times included Marc Surer, Chico Serra, Thierry Boutsen and 1980 World Drivers' Champion Alan Jones.

An Arrows A6 was entered by Roger Cowman in the 1985 Formula 3000 championship for Slim Borgudd.

The Arrows A10 was a Formula One car used by the Arrows team to compete in the 1987 and 1988 Formula One seasons. The car was designed by Ross Brawn and was upgraded slightly in 1988, racing as A10B.

The car, with upgrades to suspension and aerodynamics, was dubbed the A10B and was more successful in 1988 when most teams had converted to running 3.5L naturally aspirated engines in preparation for turbocharged engines being banned from 1989.

The BMW M12/13 turbo was a 1499.8 cc four-cylinder turbocharged Formula One engine, based on the standard BMW M10 engine introduced in 1961, and powered the F1 cars of Brabham, Arrows and Benetton. Nelson Piquet won the FIA Formula One Drivers' Championship in 1983 driving a Brabham powered by the BMW M12/13 turbo. It was the first Drivers' Championship to be won using a turbocharged engine.

Rebadged as Megatron, the BMW engines were used by the Arrows team for the 1987 and 1988 seasons, as well as Ligier in 1987. By 1988, Arrows were one of only six teams still running turbocharged engines, and the Megatron was the oldest turbo engine still in use in Formula One, Ferrari having introduced a brand-new turbo engine the previous year.

Arrows finished 5th in the 1988 Constructors' Championship and Eddie Cheever scored the A10's only podium finish with a 3rd placing at the 1988 Italian Grand Prix. Warwick also finished 4th in that race, only 0.582 seconds behind Cheever, in a great result for the team. Warwick finished 8th in the Drivers' Championship with 17 points while Cheever scored 6 points to finish 12th.

During 1988 Arrows were rated as a good chance to pick up points over the naturally aspirated cars due to having more power with the Megatron turbo, reported have around 640 bhp with the new 2.5 bar turbo limit (down in 1988 from 1987's 4.0 bar limit). The turbos were also restricted to just 150 litres of fuel per race in 1988, while the 'atmo' cars were limited only to what the car designers deemed necessary (the Benetton B188 allegedly had the largest fuel tank at 215 litres).