BRISTOL · BRISTOL SPEEDSTER · Cars
As of 2025 Q4, 2 BRISTOL SPEEDSTERs remain registered in the UK — one of the rarest cars in Britain on today's roads. Numbers are at their highest recorded level since the model first appeared in our data in 2014 Q3. Numbers have held broadly steady over recent years rather than falling away — often the mark of a model that owners deliberately preserve. In all, the BRISTOL SPEEDSTER is rarer than 90% of the 2,408 UK car models we track, putting it firmly in 2025's endangered class.
Genuinely rare — only 2 left on UK roads.
Rarer than 90% of the 2,408 UK car models we track.
Bristol Cars was a British manufacturer of hand-built luxury cars headquartered in Bristol, England. It was formed from the car division of the Bristol Aeroplane Company after the Second World War and later became independent as Bristol Cars Limited. After being placed in receivership and being taken over in 2011, it entered liquidation in February 2020. Bristol was always a low-volume manufacturer; the most recent published official production figures were for 1982, which stated that 104 cars were produced in that year. The company also had only one sales showroom, on the corner of Kensington...
As of 2025 Q4, 2 BRISTOL SPEEDSTER were still registered in the UK — 1 licensed and on the road, plus 1 declared SORN (off-road). The figures come from official DVLA vehicle licensing data.
The BRISTOL SPEEDSTER is genuinely rare, with only 2 left, making it rarer than 90% of the 2,408 UK car models we track.
Over the last year the number of BRISTOL SPEEDSTER on UK roads held steady.
Most BRISTOL SPEEDSTER run on petrol — about 100% of those still registered.
The BRISTOL SPEEDSTER peaked at 2 registered in 2014 Q3, and was first recorded in the data in 2014 Q3.