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- 1946: The Bristol Car Company grew from
the Bristol Aircraft Company following World War Two.
- 1946-1950: The Bristol 'Type 400'
(public debut 1947 [Geo00]).
1947 400
- 1948-1953: The beautiful Bristol 'Type 401'.
401
- 1949-1950: The Bristol 'Type 402' dhc.
- 1953-1955: The Bristol 'Type 403'.
- 1953-1955: The Bristol 'Type 404'.
- 1953-1955: Racing with the Bristol 'Type 450'.
- 1954-1958: The Bristol 'Type 405'.
- 1958-1961: The Bristol 'Type 406'.
- 1960: British aircraft builders, including Bristol (aircraft),
formed the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC).
The car division, Bristol Cars Ltd., became a private company.
(In 1977, after more mergers, BAC became British Aerospace (BAe).)
- 1961-1963: The Bristol 'Type 407',
with a 5-litre Chrysler V8.
- 1963-1965: Almost conventional styling in
the Bristol 'Type 408'.
- 1965-1967: The Bristol 'Type 409'.
- 1967-1969: The Bristol 'Type 410'.
- 1969-1976: The Bristol 'Type 411'.
- 1975-1993: The Bristol 'Type 412' and 'Beaufighter'.
- 1976-1982: The Bristol 'Type 603'.
- 1982-1993: The Bristol 'Britannia' and 'Brigand'.
- 1993-...: The Bristol 'Blenheim'.
- 2000-...: The Bristol 'Series 6'.
- 2003-...: The Bristol 'Speedster / Roadster'.
- 2004-...: The Bristol 'Fighter', with
Chrysler's 8-litre V10
(as in the Dodge Viper), and
turbocharged in the 'Fighter T'!
- 2011, March:
Bristol Cars went into administration.
And on 20 April 2011: Kamkorp Autokraft, part of the
Frazer-Nash group (the name of another fine old British marque),
announced that it had acquired Bristol Cars.
- 2014, February:
Long term boss of Bristol, Tony Crook b.1920, died.
- 2014, September 5: Bristol announced that
it would be back, with new models, in 2015.
- 2016, 28 July:
Bristol Cars, unveiled the new Bristol 'Bullet' sports car,
with a 4.8 l V8 "manufactured by BMW and finished by Bristol".
The Bullet did not go into production.
- 2020, 5 March:
Bristol Cars lost an appeal against liquidation.
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