Did Chrysler design the 603 !

[robertofollia]

Originally Posted by GREG

What would make you buy a Bristol ?

Just too many things
0.- Feeling. Can't describe it, it's a feel, I have never driven one, but I've sat on 2 of them and it happens from minute 1. You sit on a car and before closing the door, I already know if I will or won't ever feel well inside, no matter how many adjustments are available.
1.- Styling. I like them, I love them. Don't ask me why, because I can't explain it. I love the 411 and the Blenheim in all its incarnations.
2.- How they are designed. Thinking about them as driver's cars, to provide enjoyment from the moment you open the door, sit in the supportive armachairs and notice they have been designed to be supportive, comfortable for long journeys, being no low-cost bits trimmed in leather with a small, short and painful squab as in other so-called "premium" manufacturers.
Airiness, interior space, not intrusive windscreen. aircraft-style designed. No-nonsense switches or useless screens or info systems. Just gauges (which I love)
3.- Attention to detail. Twin flaps, spare wheel well, plenty headroom front and rear, cavernous loadspace.
4.- Quality from every inch (that solid door hinges have something to say) and built to last, not as today's cars which are designed for a 9 year-lifespan with programmed obsolescence
5.- Understatement, it's the only car that doesn't shoult "loadsamoney" so in vogue nowadays.

I could list many, many more things. But these are, by far, the most important to me.

I can remind one old sales slogan "maybe there's another faster saloon, but this does not matter: when you travel uncomfortably it's better to get home earlier"

This could be applied to Bristol's concurrence.
Happy weekend to everyone

[Ronald G. Stephenson]

Much to be said about the cars beyond their scarcity. They are indeed purpose built to take you long distances in comfort and safety, to not attract attention and to be built to last. My favorite advertisement was the one about driving through stone walls as a boast to the safety of the car. That substantial frame under the car could withstand most anything. People unfamiliar with the home roads do not realize how many 'dead ends' they have to encounter when driving through the countryside. I am sure this happened to enough drivers to account for the wording of the advertisement. In the U.S.A., we used to build cars like this, especially the larger Chrysler and Imperial models of the 1950's. I was in a head-on crash in my Imperial, and the Oldsmobile that turned in front of me was totaled. My bumper bent a little and the left wing was dented but repairable. We are now in an age of lightweight, disposable cars, all in the name of fuel economy and supposed safety with every corner of the interior protected with an air bag. Some would call this progress.