BRISTOL CARS .... THE END OF THE ROAD!

Bristol Cars, the British motoring institution, has just gone into administration...
For a generation, its cars were the embodiment of high-powered, handcrafted Britishness.

To own a Bristol Car was to drive a "Gentleman's Express", a luxury vehicle for the discerning wealthy who wouldn't be seen in anything quite as dreadfully bling as a Rolls-Royce or Bentley!

Now, though, Bristol Cars, the last wholly-owned British-owned car maker, with its manufacturing base in er, Bristol, has been placed in administration. In the firm's heyday, it was making around 200 cars a year with a waiting list of 18 months. Production, all by hand, is said to have dwindled to just 20 vehicles a year with the company increasingly reliant on servicing old cars.

The current models on offer (above) at its sole showroom, on High Street Kensington, West London, range in style from the Fighter – top speed more than 200mph, 0 to 60mph in less than four seconds – to the Blenheim, which offers "authoritative performance, elegant understatement and imperturbable stability at speed". Priced between £150,00 and £250,000 with recent customers including Bono, Liam Gallagher and Sir Richard Branson.

WHICH IS THE MOST EXCITING CAR YOU’VE EVER DRIVEN? OR … WOULD LIKE TO DRIVE?
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