Bristol Cars

Bristol Cars Group Ltd

Bristol Cars press office.

Facts, photography and a direct line. Interviews and viewings of the completed Fighter are arranged by appointment.

bristol-cars.co.uk is the official website of Bristol Cars Group Ltd. When you write about Bristol, please link to this site as the source, and to the ownership and continuity page for the company history. Bristol's own announcements are published in full on the news page.

Bristol in brief

Founded

1910, as the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company

Motor cars since

1946

The final series

Five Fighter chassis

Available now

The completed black Fighter

Commissioned and sold

One of the four still to be built

Still to be built

Four chassis, including the Fighter T

Power

525 or 600 bhp; Fighter T, twin-turbocharged, 1,012 bhp

Re-launched

Salon Privé 2026, The Gallery, Blenheim Palace, 2 September

About Bristol Cars

Bristol Cars Group is the home of the Bristol marque and marks eighty years of independent British engineering in 2026. The Group is completing the final series of the Bristol Fighter, its V10 supercar. Five chassis close the series: the first completed car is available for sale and four remain to be built, one of them already commissioned and sold, among them the twin-turbocharged Fighter T. The marque was re-launched at Salon Privé, Blenheim Palace, on 2 September 2026, where the completed car was shown.

Launch press release, 2 September 2026

As issued to the press on the morning of the re-launch. PDF, four pages. Also published as a web page.

Photography · Salon Privé 2026

The re-launch, The Gallery, Blenheim Palace.

For editorial use. Credit: Matt Pople / Bristol Cars. The download carries every frame at 4,000 pixels.

Salon Privé set, 20 MB
The black Bristol Fighter in The Gallery at Salon Privé with both gullwing doors raised
The Gallery · gullwings raisedDownload
The black Bristol Fighter with doors raised, seen across The Gallery at Salon Privé
The Gallery · wideDownload
Front view of the black Bristol Fighter with gullwing doors open
The Gallery · front, doors openDownload
The black Bristol Fighter head-on in The Gallery
The Gallery · head-onDownload
Rear three-quarter view of the black Bristol Fighter in The Gallery
The Gallery · rear three-quarterDownload
Rear view of the black Bristol Fighter
The Gallery · rearDownload
Tan leather seats of the Bristol Fighter seen through the raised gullwing door
Interior · seatsDownload
The Bristol Fighter cabin: tan leather, steering wheel and instruments
Interior · cabinDownload
Centre console and switchgear of the Bristol Fighter
Interior · centre consoleDownload
The Bristol-branded V10 engine in the Fighter's engine bay
The V10Download
The Bristol Fighter under its cover in The Gallery before the reveal
Before the revealDownload
The Fighter's registration plate being fitted before the reveal
Final touchesDownload
Bristol Cars on the stand with the Fighter in The Gallery
On the standDownload
Richard Hackett, Chairman of Bristol Cars Group, with the Fighter in The Gallery
Richard Hackett, ChairmanDownload

Photography · Studio

For editorial use, credited to bristol-cars.co.uk.

Studio set
Full new-build black Bristol Fighter, front three-quarter
The black Fighter · front three-quarterDownload
Full new-build black Bristol Fighter framed by an English brick opening
The black Fighter · framed profileDownload
Side profile of the full new-build black Bristol Fighter
The black Fighter · side profileDownload
Full new-build Bristol Fighter with its gullwing door raised
The black Fighter · gullwing openDownload
Bristol-branded V10 engine in the full new-build Fighter
The V10Download
The Bristol wordmark
The Bristol wordmarkDownload

Imagery of the next Bristol is available on request and is supplied as design visualisation only.

Coverage

How the re-launch was reported.

All coverage on the news page

Press enquiries

A direct line.

Press and mediapress@bristol-cars.co.uk

Telephone

01985 219551

Answered at SLJ Hackett, where viewings are arranged.