@@geraldarcuri9307 Near enough, Britain grabbed the tooling from BMW at wars end and relocated it to britain, however when producing this car, they had the decency to award it a BMW face.
@@geraldarcuri9307 It's a tad simplistic to make such a rash generalisation : the underpinnings are distinctly different : BMW used a 4"tubular full length chassis frame ,if I recall correctly, whereas Bristol's square section boxed chassis rails were abbreviated forr'ard of the rear axle , not unlike the contemporary post war Rover P3s : Clearly Bristol took their cue for frontal treatment from pre war BMW's , but the immediate post war Bristol 400 saloon's rear end treatment was a direct pinch from the one-off Horch 853 'streamliner' fixed head coupe' , built for Bernd Rosemeyer in around 1937 I believe : The 400 Bristol even sported the small ovalish opening rear window of the Horch.
