The Bristol Blenheim 3S

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[TW]Fox;11160711 said:
You don't half speak some rubbish sometimes, 'new money types' don't generally drive themselves around in Phantoms. I would have agreed had you said Bentley Continental GT but there is no way any current production Rolls Royce is for 'new money types', and the fact that perhaps the odd one or two is bought for that purpose has no effect on the brand. I bet every marque in the world has at least one undesireable customer.
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You don't half miss the point sometimes ;)

To the average Bristol owner, the average Rolls owner is a 'brash new money type'. Not your preconception of the term. Their use of it.

*n
 
[TW]Fox;11160826 said:
And you'd know all about that, being in the typical Bristol demographic yourself, I guess? ;)
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Having met about a dozen Brizzle owners over the years.

A great uncle owns one actually. Not a new one though; a classic.

Bristol owners tend to be really old-money types...The kind who have had family piles for centuries. Look at the company principle; an ex WWII pilot if I recall correctly.

I'd say the 'average' Roller owner nowadays would be a successful, high-end businessman. Older ones being owned by wedding hire companies and classic ones being owned by a wide variety of people.

*n
 
To me, 'new money' is people who've suddenly made a mint doing 'property development innit' or a footballer or suchlike, rather than succesful businessmen (Wait for someone to get the wrong idea and argue they are both the same thing...).
 
Old fashioned, outdated, flawed, ugly, and expensive cars that are sold by a bunch of stuck up public school ‘types’ who think they were born we a better pot to pee in and personify many of the distasteful traits that they are quick to criticise in others, not least their elitism based on nothing more than a different set of metrics to ‘new money’ types they detest, but just as distasteful.

Having said that we have far too few eccentrics in England these days, so all power to them!
 
[TW]Fox;11161303 said:
To me, 'new money' is people who've suddenly made a mint doing 'property development innit' or a footballer or suchlike, rather than succesful businessmen (Wait for someone to get the wrong idea and argue they are both the same thing...).
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I know it is. To you.

To people with a country pile and a shoreside up at the lakes (with a handbuilt cruiser in the boathouse, there is little difference between a property developer and someone with a business (or businesses) that turns over a few million ;)

*n
 
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that door doesn't even line up properly.
horrible car imo :p
 
housemaster said:
Old fashioned, outdated, flawed, ugly, and expensive cars that are sold by a bunch of stuck up public school ‘types’ who think they were born we a better pot to pee in and personify many of the distasteful traits that they are quick to criticise in others, not least their elitism based on nothing more than a different set of metrics to ‘new money’ types they detest, but just as distasteful.
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Well said. I wonder how the Bristol actually performs on a track up against its competitors.
 
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