Morgan Plus 8 GTR

[The.Doc]

10 minuti fa, KimKardashian scrive:

Bristol che fine ha fatto?

 

Le ultime news:

http://www.motoristorici.it/bristol-storico-costruttore-britannico-liquidazione/

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/bristol-cars-loses-appeal-against-liquidation

https://www.autoweek.com/news/luxury/a31280916/rip-bristol-cars-1945-2020/

Se qualcuno qui vuol rilevarla e rilanciarla 😬😬😬

[superkappa125]

Peccato perché la Bullett era davvero bella, ma son felice che i telai non siano andati sprecati.

Comunque ci son news più recenti sulla Bristol:

 

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/bristol-cars-be-revived-shock-new-buccaneer-gt

 

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Bristol Cars to be revived for shock new Buccaneer GT

British businessman plans to ‘remaster’ old Bristols before producing an all-new car

 

 

13 January 2021

Bristol Cars, the company that won post-war fame for its fast and plush grand tourers but was liquidated last year, is to be revived by a British entrepreneur.

Jason Wharton, an Essex-based property developer and Bristol enthusiast, wants to reinstate traditional manufacturing of Bristol cars quickly, and to build an “atelier-style” division around the new business that will sell, restore and support Bristol models of all ages. If all goes to plan, the new concern will be based near the company’s original home at Filton, on the outskirts of Bristol.

Wharton’s idea is to launch “remastered” versions of the Fighter two-seater and the 411 four-seater during 2022, before unveiling an all-new Buccaneer (reinstating a name previous owners used for a stillborn new model) around the middle of the decade.

“Our all-new car will be a four-seater very much in the traditional Bristol mould,” said Wharton, “but it will make extensive use of modern technology and materials.”

Wharton recently completed the purchase of the intellectual property rights needed to begin making his improved versions of existing designs, along with a collection of useful equipment, such as chassis jigs and body parts.

He hopes to gain access to the Bristol company archive, currently for sale, although he believes that would be better owned and managed by the Bristol Owners’ Heritage Trust.

The remastered Fighter and 411 models will each be hand-built in batches of eight. They will be comprehensively re-engineered where needed – for instance, the 411’s old-fashioned live rear axle will be replaced by an independent rear suspension.

Both will use a version of Chrysler’s 6.4-litre petrol Hemi V8 engine, driving through an eight-speed automatic gearbox. Bristol had a long relationship with Chrysler, mostly using V8s, although the original Fighter had an 8.0-litre Dodge V10.

Wharton says he is on the brink of appointing a head of engineering (“somebody experienced in low-volume OEM manufacturing”), whose first major task will be to build and develop a prototype of each remastered model ready for the road by the end of 2021.

The latest 411 will be dubbed the Series 8. The model had reached Series 6 when production stopped in 2011, but Wharton feels a two-model jump will best reflect the extent of the car’s modernisation.

Rumours of Bristol’s revival plans have already reached the ears of some owners and enthusiasts, with the result that Wharton has begun collecting “expressions of interest” even before potential owners have learned much about the price or specification.

When the first manufacturing phase is complete, Wharton says he will “take time” to decide the specification of the new Buccaneer, although some kind of Chrysler powertrain link, a Bristol tradition reaching back to the 1960s, looks probable.

 

The new design will draw much from the crash-safety engineering, running gear, clean-air equipment and electronics package of a suitable donor car, much as Autocar’s own Ford Mustang-based ‘bring back Bristol’ proposal did.

However, the new model’s bespoke design, exclusivity and hand-assembly could push its price beyond the £295,000 of the Autocar proposal.

Wharton says he’s “relaxed” about the effects of the UK government’s planned ban on the sale of new ICE cars in nine years’ time – both because potential customers have so far signalled an overwhelming interest in V8 engines and because he believes suitable donor hybrid and EV solutions will appear comfortably before the ban is imposed.

The urgent mission for now, he believes, is to preserve the unique heritage of Bristol, which began as a spin-off from a vibrant post-war aircraft industry, and to “do what I can to sustain this country’s really wonderful tradition of low-volume hand manufacture”.

 

Si accettano scommesse su quanto dureranno stavolta.

[The.Doc]

1 minuto fa, superkappa125 scrive:

Peccato perché la Bullett era davvero bella, ma son felice che i telai non siano andati sprecati.

Comunque ci son news più recenti sulla Bristol:

 

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/bristol-cars-be-revived-shock-new-buccaneer-gt

 

 

Si accettano scommesse su quanto dureranno stavolta.

 

Un coupettone 4 posti stralusso è nello spirito della Bristol, così come rifare la Fighter ci sta... era troppo particolare... spero però sappiano tirar fuori un qualcosa che giustifichi la "rinascita"... sempre che il tutto vada in porto e non faccia la fine del "rilancio" della TVR...

La Bullett sinceramente mi sembrava una Cobra a motore Bmw e nonostante i richiami alla Serie 400... mah 😬

 

Meglio attendere cosa uscirà da Malvern Hills 😅

 

 

[kire_06]

Io mi ricordo che Bristol dichiarò fallimento ormai una decina di anni fa. Può essere che abbiano continuato fino al 2021? https://www.autoblog.it/post/32143/bristol-in-amministrazione-controllata

[Ale_72]

28 minuti fa, kire_06 scrive:

Io mi ricordo che Bristol dichiarò fallimento ormai una decina di anni fa.

Anche Wiesmann ha portato piu' libri in tribunale che auto in strada.

E' il destino dei piccoli produttori che non hanno una solida e fedele base clienti, ahime'.

Che non necessariamente va di pari passo con la qualita', le prestazioni o i meriti.

[The.Doc]

29 minuti fa, kire_06 scrive:

Io mi ricordo che Bristol dichiarò fallimento ormai una decina di anni fa. Può essere che abbiano continuato fino al 2021? https://www.autoblog.it/post/32143/bristol-in-amministrazione-controllata

 

La produzione Bristol è stata sospesa nel 2011, calcola che forse han prodotto solo 6-7 Fighter dal 2006....