BRISTOL

Bristol Cars was a manufacturer of hand-built luxury cars headquartered in Bristol, England. After being placed in receivership and being taken over in 2011, it entered liquidation in February 2020. In 2021, it was announced that the rights and IP have been newly registered by Bristol Manufacturing Limited, owned by Jason Wharton.

After the Second World War, the Car Division of the Bristol Aeroplane Company was formed, later becoming Bristol Cars Limited.

Bristol had only one sales showroom, on the corner of Kensington High Street and Holland Road in London.

It was always a low-volume manufacturer; the most recent published official production figures were for 1982, which stated that 104 cars were produced in that year.