These include a pandemic, Brexit and lately, a global microchip shortage. Oh, and in the UK, new regulations prohibiting the sale of new internal combustion engine equipped cars from 2030, unless they’re part-electrified. With challenges like this ranged against it, it’s no surprise that the car industry is facing substantial headwinds. Despite all this, the UK car industry has nevertheless had its successes, and where there has been trouble – Jaguar and Aston Martin, for instance – there are bold and hopeful recovery programmes in progress.

Of course this list is a reflection of what has occurred in the 125-odd years since British car-making began and also when Autocar started writing about them, and it has now been updated to account for the seven tumultuous years since we last published it. The previous ranking was arrived at using votes from you, dear readers, but this time we have decided to boldly choose the top 100 ourselves.

There has been quite a bit of change, despite seven years not being so long. There are several electric cars in the list, and many more supercars and luxury GTs. We start at number 100, and work our way through to what we reckon is the best all-round British car ever made: