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Driving through the quintessentially English village of Bramley in the heart of the Surrey countryside, south of Guildford, one could be forgiven for barely noticing The Foundry, the unobtrusive showrooms of Bramley Motors, specialists in the sale of prestige motor cars.
Beyond this understated exterior is one of the most respected names in the prestige motor car business. On any given day it is also home to over fifty of the most exclusive and remarkable motor cars in the country, possibly the world.
Bramley Motors deals only in the exceptional. Not just first class motor cars, but uniquely special motor cars.
Warmly greeted by Sales and Marketing Manager, Jack Morgan-Jones, our visit to Bramley Motors begins alongside an Aston Martin V8 Vantage, one of James Bond’s most memorable cars, appearing in Living Daylights and No Time To Die.
Jack also tells us about handling the sale of a sapphire blue Range Rover, one of many former Royal Household cars sold by Bramley Motors. But this one was even more exceptional following its high profile appearance when Prince Phillip, accompanied by Queen Elizabeth II, drove it to meet President Obama and the First Lady as they stepped off Marine One after it landed in the grounds of Windsor Castle, marking the start of the Presidential visit to the UK in 2016.
With high profile clients ranging from senior members of the Royal Family to well-known popstars, top sports athletes to international collectors, the film industry to top flight business people, Jack is clear that Bramley’s diverse customer base is made up of people from all backgrounds who just love cars.
We ask Jack what it is that makes a car ‘exceptional’.
“Some of the most famous cars ever bought have come through us” Jack replies. “We specialise in the special and it is the uniquely special pedigree and provenance of a car that makes it exceptional.”
The team at Bramley Motors ensures their stock is as diverse as possible. Each car made available by Bramley Motors tells a different story. Its exclusive credentials might come from limited edition rarity, history, ownership, and low mileage – often delivery mileage only.
Every vehicle is privately sourced, with members of the public approaching Bramley Motors, who are picky about what they buy. All of Bramley’s stock is exceptionally well maintained, to a factory standard. Despite this, even the occasional and most minor stone chip is repaired before resale by artisan body repair specialists, and every vehicle finely detailed by Bramley’s expert inhouse team, to beyond original forecourt quality.
A visit to Bramley Motors is in itself a uniquely prime experience. The tiered flagstone courtyard is surrounded by a red brick and stone gallery style showroom, the polished parquet floor as shiny as the finest Ferraris, Mercedes, Porsches, Bentleys, Alfa Romeos and Aston Martins it houses.
Yet since the COVID-19 pandemic 40-50% of Bramley Motors’ orders have been unseen, click and collect, distance selling transactions. Only the outstanding and trusted international reputation of Bramley Motors makes it possible to sell a high specification Audi RS6 in 6 minutes following an Instagram post, or see a £800,000 Ferrari F12tdf shipped to Malaysia, a car so special that it could have been sold three or four times over in response to a social media showcase.
Visitors are not only welcomed, they are encouraged. An interest in cars, and an appreciation of their aesthetic beauty as art, as well as the understanding of that emotional connection a motor car can engender, is as core to Bramley Motors’ ethos as the appreciation of the specification sheet and the power of the engines.
Find out more at www.bramley.com.
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