A sad day but perhaps not entirely surprising. We live in a pretty tasteless, ostentatious society and the Bristol was just too refined. Added to that, unless something is endorsed by magazines, people don't want it (I don't think the vast majority of the public can make up their own minds). If Bristols had been able to throw vast sums at an advertising campaign, this may not have happened; magazines are always happy to endorse the products of big advertisers. Having said that, a TV advert for a Bristol would have been
interesting, judging by the abstract nature of most; I can't really see how you get over the message of superb craftsmanship, by driving a car, slowly down a street, where the bystanders all look as if they are out of their minds on drugs
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As to our politicians, they've let the rest of British industry go to the wall; what's new. Perhaps the Chinese will buy it and rename it Blistol.
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