Bristols

[Churchill]

Who did they sell 'em to, people with bad taste?

Frankly I'd be more concerned about viable British cars such as Land Rover, Jaguar, Aston Martin not owned by locals.

**** off back to Russia. Seriously.

[SimonMac]

Was anyone else really disappointed that is was about cars and not cockney rhyming slang

(puts kleenex away)

[DimPrawn]

They were a typical British company, unable and/or unwilling to move with the times.

Here's a car they designed in 1976:

Bristol Type 603 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And not really developed or updated and still being "sold" today (if anyone wants a very expensive 1976 car).

Here's a Kia from a few years ago, it looks and is tulip



And here's some new Kia cars:







And here's a Kia design for tomorrow:



and another




So, Bristol, expensive, ugly cars from the 1970's being sold selectively to very rich, blind/stupid people.

Other car manufacturers (like Kia) are booming, improving designs, quality, technology and manufacturing techniques.

I'd rather have a Kia.

[Churchill]

The biggest loss in all this will be the skills that the people at Bristol Cars Ltd currently have.

Oh well.

Last one out switch the light off.

[DimPrawn]

The biggest loss in all this will be the skills that the people at Bristol Cars Ltd currently have.

Oh well.

Last one out switch the light off.

We don't need skills. Skills is old economy.

We need more bankers, more printed money, more lending, more debt, buy a house, sell it a 2x price a year later.

That's the future. We should scrap maths, science at school and teach children how to buy and sell houses and how to short a stock via a CFD.

[suityou01]

We don't need skills. Skills is old economy.

We need more bankers, more printed money, more lending, more debt, buy a house, sell it a 2x price a year later.

That's the future. We should scrap maths, science at school and teach children how to buy and sell houses and how to short a stock via a CFD.

Or short an index

[DimPrawn]

Or short an index

Exactly. Imagine a million youngsters all shorting via a 2x inverse leveraged ETF the British economy with all their pocket money. We'd be laughing and they'd have pension fund by the time they were 14.

[Pondlife]

The biggest loss in all this will be the skills that the people at Bristol Cars Ltd currently have.

Oh well.

Last one out switch the light off.

Shame to see this happen. I used to enjoy my time when at the "posh car place" and many of the skills these people had particularly in the coach building section will disappear.

As for switching off the light... everyone's gone already and the light is on a timer to give the impression that someone's still here.

[AtW]

The biggest loss in all this will be the skills that the people at Bristol Cars Ltd currently have.

Their cars look complete and utter tulip and I am pretty sure inside they are also 70s technology - it might soon be probably impossible to certify one of those due to too high emissions.

[suityou01]

Exactly. Imagine a million youngsters all shorting via a 2x inverse leveraged ETF the British economy with all their pocket money. We'd be laughing and they'd have pension fund by the time they were 14.

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