{"id":2124190,"date":"2026-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2124190"},"modified":"2026-09-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:00:00","slug":"oh-look-its-a-new-old-v10-engined-bristol-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2124190","title":{"rendered":"Oh look, it\u2019s a new-old V10-engined Bristol Fighter!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You\u2019re looking at \u201ca new era\u201d in Bristol Cars<\/a>\u2019 history. The long-defunct<\/a> and self-proclaimed \u2018enigmatic\u2019 British carmaker has returned\u2026 with an old car. Well, a new-old car.<\/p>\n

For it has discovered five unused Fighter chassis\u2019, and it intends to rebuild all five of them. This is the first one, and like the Fighters Bristol made in the early Noughties just before it went defunct, features a mighty Dodge Viper V10 under that long bonnet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s been built to original spec, which at the time meant either 525 or 600 American horsies from that 8.0-litre ten-pot. At the time, Bristol claimed a 210mph top speed.<\/p>\n

As you can see, this first Fighter chassis from the five original ones it has left gets a black paintjob, tan interior, and all the unique affectations of the original Fighter: long bonnet, V10, gullwing doors, Noughties cabin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This first car\u2019s a right-hand drive model \u2013 unveiled at posh motor show Salon Prive \u2013 but Bristol said the remaining four original cars can be configured as LHD cars if desired.<\/p>\n

Bristol will work with \u201ca leading British manufacturing partner\u201d to build the things, by hand, to their owner\u2019s exacting specifications. As you\u2019d expect of something low volume.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Been on a bit of journey, has Bristol. Everything shut down in 2011, then fired back up again with the promised Bristol Bullet in 2016<\/a> which came to nothing, and then shut back down again. \u201cKamkorp Autokraft Ltd carried on until 2022,\u201d the company said, \u201cand it is against this backdrop that the marque\u2019s return begins: not by overlooking the gaps in history, but by returning to an authentic and unfinished chapter and completing what was left behind.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bristol boss Paul King added: \u201cThis is the beginning of Bristol\u2019s return, and there is much more to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You\u2019re looking at \u201ca new era\u201d in Bristol Cars\u2019 history. The long-defunct and self-proclaimed \u2018enigmatic\u2019 British carmaker has returned\u2026 with an old car. Well, a new-old car. For it has discovered five unused Fighter chassis\u2019, and it intends to rebuild all five of them. This is the first one, and like the Fighters Bristol made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-2124190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2124190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2124190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2124190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2124190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}