[2] With UK fuel supplies no longer restricted to the low-octane wartime "pool petrol", all engines for the 404 and 405 came with higher compression ratios than predecessor Bristols — 8.5:1 as against 7.5:1.

It was also the model that introduced the Bristol feature of sizable lockers in the front wings accessed externally by gullwing doors.

The vicar, Sidney Chambers (played by James Norton), was given a lift in a maroon 405, at the beginning of Grantchester, series 3, episode 5 (2017).

Daniel Day-Lewis is featured driving a maroon 405 around Whitby, North Yorkshire, in the film Phantom Thread, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and released on Christmas Day 2017.

[3] In the 2017 Sony Pictures film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Crooked House, private detective Charles Hayward (Max Irons) uses a maroon 405.