another british car company folds..

[mowgli]

Bristol Cars is closing down..

http://designapplause.com/wp-content/xG58hlz9/2010/06/bristol1.png (http://designapplause.com/wp-content/xG58hlz9/2010/06/bristol1.png)

as much as it saddens me to see another bit of our motoring heritage going, i have to say that their cars have mostly been ugly as hell & way too expensive, and they have survived about 20 years longer than they should.

discuss

[windfreek]

Discuss what? Thank god I say, but I wonder where their design team are goin? Maybe Dacia! Lol

[Andy]

Is it bad i thought they already had wrapped in??

[blue_peg_16v]

shame for them but there designs were crap who has been buying them for them to last this long

[mowgli]

thank god it wasn't just me then....... just look at that pic above, i've seen better kit car projects on ebay..

[wwmnw]

Don't tell me you wouldn't own one of these

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTBXamTLoxmeTfOiPEd2g29wRXNGFlpY 6YbM6Ph-P0cVjJFXWK5dA

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQDrQu8v_cM1DJCossuiGWB5-DRjrd9O4i7On9mYqOmL2IGU9mjEQ

Just look at that, OK, its ugly as **** at the front but the rear end is, err, I've seen worse.

[blue_peg_16v]

thats fecking horrible no thanks

[nova_saloon]

the top one looks like a long saab. but ah well they dont make lookers really do they

[mowgli]

bit of gt4 on the front, marcos on the back.....

[TonySR]

The top one looks like a rounded off Capri

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/1/1e/20071028104444!Ford_capri_mk3_inj.jpg

& the bottom one has a similar front to a Integra Type R

http://image.superstreetonline.com/f/18290808+w750+st0/130_0904_03_z+integra_type_r+front_side.jpg

No wonder they went bust!

[sport]

I have never heard of them.

[bazil]

meh if they had let jezza have one on top gear they would have been safe lol

[Bubba]

wouldnt they only sell you a car after they met you and decided they like you? or did i dream that

[bazil]

wouldnt they only sell you a car after they met you and decided they like you? or did i dream that

thats them, they wouldnt let james may into the showroom as hes a friend of clarckson lol

[Jack]

That beeswax beige one looks like a TVR crashed into a Teg lol

[Bubba]

thats them, they wouldnt let james may into the showroom as hes a friend of clarckson lol

by god i think ive worked out why they went bust lol

[mowgli]

oh, and the fact that each car cost £200k

[Mike]

Love them or hate, there quit the iconic british car manufacturer from during the war as Uncle Albert would say.

[blue_peg_16v]

the bloke who runs the company is a complete bristol though, you carnt not sell cars to people because you dont like them or there friends of people you dont like and expect to make money especialy when its an expensive product and your alienating rich people

[Mike]

the bloke who runs the company is a complete bristol though you carnt not sell cars to people because you dont like them or there friends of people you dont like and expect to make money

This is true, but on the other side of things, he's done exceptionally well IMO to work that way an STILL be trading upto this day an age.

[Pistol Pete]

I was surprised to hear the news. BUT i am also surprised that they have lasted as long as they have!!