Driving me mad

L-M

Can't think of the name of the British car manufacturing company that made very top end cars. Begins with B? Anyone elighten me?

Robbo

Bristol?

robbie99

Bentley.

Tony Broke

Bentley?

L-M

Robbo wrote: »

Bristol?

Ya i thought it was Bristol alright, but googling it gave up no car images.

That's the one. Sound!

Seth Brundle

Bentley are owned by VAG so not British!

stratos

If sir has taste he buys a Jaguar.
If sir has money he buys a bentley.
If sir has money and taste he buys a Bristol.

Yakult

you get it??

unkel

Is Bristol still around? Are they still producing those ridiculously expensive pieces of sh1te?

stratos

Gawd lets hope not. I believe corrosion gave birth to its demon child "rust" at the Bristol factory.

bazz26

5.9 litre V8 :eek:

All you need to know:

http://www.bristolcars.co.uk/index2.htm

PS Look at the price of the things. Like buying a 40 year old sofa from Land of Leather!

L-M

Look at the little exhausts on it lol... Very tacky looking.

the_syco

Yes. I do believe they are thinking of bringing the production lilne back on to make the cars. Also pretty sure that they are of the same make as the car also known as the "back to the future" car :cool:

bazz26

From their website:

"By painstaking engineering and innovative design, Bristol have achieved what our owners most desire. A car sized to make the best use of today's roads yet with the full accommodation of a formal saloon and the presence of a true gentleman's Grand Touring coupé"

LOL. Pass the sherry, Cyril. :pac:

bazz26

the_syco wrote: »

Yes. I do believe they are thinking of bringing the production lilne back on to make the cars. Also pretty sure that they are of the same make as the car also known as the "back to the future" car :cool:

Are you sure about that? I don't think they had any connection with John Delorean unless the designers were buying drugs from him.

L-M

I'm sitting here staring at that car. I really can't get over how ugly it is. My god lol

stratos

it's like a bently continental rear ended a Hyundai coupe .

Mr Benevolent

Capri with a hint of Jag... dear jebus!

Par72

The shocking thing is it looks really cheap!

Zube

That's an ancient model, these days they make the Fighter.



"Optional twin turbocharged 'T' version produces 1012 bhp and 1036 lb.ft of torque."

andrewh5

kbannon wrote: »

Bentley are owned by VAG so not British!

They were originally though.

Mr Benevolent

Meh. I've seen modified cars that look better!

Biro

the_syco wrote: »

Yes. I do believe they are thinking of bringing the production lilne back on to make the cars. Also pretty sure that they are of the same make as the car also known as the "back to the future" car :cool:

How are DeLorean and Bristol related? I think you're misinformed somehow!

Ferris

Clarkson on Tony Crook, the owner of Bristol:

I tried to drive it. I asked the man who brought it over if I could have the keys but he was most insistent: “You can only look at it.” Well, I could have done that using an internet. “I don’t care. That’s what my boss says.” Ah, his boss: the legendary Tony Crook.

He was the man who rescued Bristol’s car division when the government merged the aeroplane business into the British Aircraft Corporation. And he was the man who throughout the 1950s used to tour the motor show stands of his competitors — Fraser Nash and Rolls-Royce — dressed as an Arab.

“Oh, it was great fun. I used to order five or six Rolls-Royces at a time and once I tried to buy all the cars from the Fraser Nash stand.

I insisted they sold all of them to me that day. And I had a suitcase full of money to prove I meant business. It wasn’t really money. It was a few fivers with lots of lavatory paper underneath but it had them fooled.”

Of course, Rolls was used to him because in the 1940s he used to pay tramps to sit on its stand at the London motor show. Why? “Well, just to annoy them really.”

Sounds like a character, wouldn't want to but a car off him however.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/jeremy_clarkson/article798773.ece

TomMc

Tony Crook is to the motor industry what Declan Ganley is to mainstream politicians and the establishment.

And anyone who knocks Bristol is a philistine in my book.

Seth Brundle

andrewh5 wrote: »

They were originally though.

I was trying to be smart!