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They could have at least hired a designer. I think your Aston and Capri comparisons flatter it, maybe the front looks like a bad XJ6 rip off, but that's as good as I can manage for a compliment.
The rear end looks like a droopy old Vauxhall Senator with a whiff of Saab, like you say, hardly setting the pulses racing. I've no idea how much one of those was new, sure it was an eye watering amount, which for all that fuglyness is just too much.
Sad they are confined to just another footnote in UK automotive history, but it seems at least partly self inflicted.
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I used to ride past the Bristol showroom everyday. They always seemed to have one of those dreary things you posted last in there - never anything in the least bit desirable.
There really isn't much to recommend it... I can see a smattering of Aston V8 in the grill, and Capri in the front quarters, but there's quite a bit of Volvo in there too..
I always assumed that there was some section of old school nobility somewhere that kept them afloat maintaining the car their grandfather bought, and that they'd somehow look alright outside a country pile in the home counties.
It's been a couple of years since I went past - shame they've gone.