What about Prodrive?
They bought Aston Martin from Ford and it is British company that is making cars (P2), only 49% is owned by Apax Partners, so 51% british, right?
Radical Sportscars is British company and making cars, right?
Ultima Sports, Noble, Caterham?
Ah, but none is big grey car producer, each do small amounts of very refined products, together they all are however quite considerable car industry.
Problem still is that those are not boring grey cars, certainly goverment can't give signal to people that they would support buying something that is fun and quick.
I personally will have serious problems if someone would offer me 2500 pounds from my 240 if there would be some 12K proper sports car to buy, like Caterham 7 Classic, it is not most powerful car out there, but 6.5sec 0-100kph is enough good for that price
However I must resists, such are plans of evil that they lure us to forget our old classics and slip to path of wasteful consuming, let's choir together, consuming is bad, consuming is bad
Volvo 360GL -88 -under restoration-
Volvo 343DL vario -81 -running-
Volvo 240 Diesel -83 -undecided-
Citroen ZX Dturbo -97 -daily-