Yahoo Autos The Bristol Bullet Is the New Shelby Cobra
Up until now, if you wanted to buy a new British roadster with a naturally-aspirated V8 and zero nonsense, you pretty much had to buy a Morgan Aero 8. Now, there's a new kid in town wearing a familiar badge, and it seems to be making all the right noises around Bristol's Kensington showroom.
Say what you will about the Bristol Bullet looking like a fish, I don't care. What matters to me is that it's a front-engined roadster with a BMW V8 weighing just 2755 pounds wet, with a manual gearbox (an automatic is optional) and a carbon composite body that's full of daring details.
It also packs 370 lb-ft for good measure, which is good enough for a 0-60 run of 3.8 seconds and a top speed of 155mph.
Since it's 2016, after taking care of the essentials, Bristol upgraded the interior with a touchscreen that can mirror your phone, stream stuff and connect devices via Wi-Fi. The Bullet even has a button that will guide you straight to Kensington in case you run out of tea, or there's a warning light that just won't go away even after you ripped out the fuses. The rest is covered in the best of British hides, with a wooden dash or an optional hand-laid unidirectional carbon fiber one.
The Bullets will be built just next to Goodwood in Chichester, and a coupe version is about to follow the Speedster, with even a hybrid planned down the line.
The Shelby Series 1 might have not worked out, but this Bristol really should.
