To celebrate the British International Motor Show this year we picked our 100 best British cars. Check out our selection to help you choose your favourite home-grown motor.
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31 Bristol Blenheim (page 6 of 25)
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Said be the largest surviving British-owned car company, Bristol continues to intrigue and confound its critics. The Blenheim (from 1994) maintains the old-school separate-chassis construction method and live rear axle, and is a delightful anachronism. A few contemporary must-haves have crept in, and you can even have that Chrysler 5.9 V8 converted to run on LPG, but it's as eccentric and charismatic as ever. Hand-built in the great tradition, as flawlessly finished as ever, the £150,000-plus Blenheim is a survivor from another era, yet strangely timeless. Let the Fighter be the modern-day Bristol; long may the Blenheim continue. We love it for its sheer bloody-mindedness.
