What’s happened to Bristol Street Motors?
It was also around this time that vertu motors completed a group-wide rebrand – retiring the bristol street motors and macklin motors names and bringing all retail operations under the vertu banner. Who we are. Vertu was founded in 2006 and has since grown into one of the uk’s leading motor retailers. In 2025, we brought two well-known brand names – bristol street motors in england and macklin motors in scotland-under the vertu name, uniting over 200 dealerships nationwide.Up to that point, Vertu had operated three separate retail brands but after celebrating its centenary in 2024, the Bristol Street Motors name disappeared from dealerships in April 2025 when they were all rebranded to Vertu; creating one network of dealerships across the country.Up to that point, Vertu had operated three separate retail brands but after celebrating its centenary in 2024, the Bristol Street Motors name disappeared from dealerships in April 2025 when they were all rebranded to Vertu; creating one network of dealerships across the country.
Who owns Bristol St. Motors?
In 2007, Vertu Motors plc bought 32 Bristol Street Motors new and used car dealerships. The group, which is now the fifth largest automotive retailer in the UK, currently operates 159 sales outlets across the UK. 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.
Where were the original Bristol Street Motors?
The move by the Group to align Bristol Street Motors with Burnley Football Club comes in the year that the brand celebrates its centenary, having opened its first dealership on Bristol Street in Birmingham in 1924. Bristol Street Motors Group is headquartered in Gateshead, United Kingdom.