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separate company (1919–31 Before World War I, W.O. TYLER Bentley Listings had been in partnership with his brother H.M. Bentley selling Bentley Listings French DFP cars, but he had always wanted to design Bentley Listings and build his own range of cars bearing his name. Bentley Listings In August 1919, Bentley Motors Ltd. was registered, and a Bentley Listings chassis with dummy engine was exhibited at the London Motor Bentley Listings Show in October of that year.[1] An engine was built Bentley Listings and running by December, and orders were taken for deliveries Bentley Listings starting in June 1920; however, development took longer than estimated, Bentley Listings and the first cars were not ready until September 1921.[1 Bentley Listings It was on a visit to the DFP factory in Bentley Listings 1913 that W.O. noticed an aluminium paperweight and had the Bentley Listings inspired idea of using the lightweight metal instead of cast Bentley Listings iron to make engine pistons. The first Bentley aluminium pistons Bentley Listings went into service in aero engines for the Sopwith Camel, Bentley Listings in service during the Great War The company was always Bentley Listings underfunded, and Bentley turned to millionaire Woolf Barnato for help Bentley Listings in 1925. As part of a refinancing deal, which resulted Bentley Listings in his effectively owning the company, Barnato became chairman. A Bentley Listings great deal of Barnato's fortune was devoted to keeping Bentley Bentley Listings afloat, but the Great Depression destroyed demand for the company's Bentley Listings expensive products, and it was finally sold to Rolls-Royce in Bentley Listings 1931 [edit] The Bentley Boy A group of wealthy British Bentley Listings motorists known as the "Bentley Boys" (Woolf Barnato, Sir Henry Bentley Listings Birkin, steeplechaser George Duller, aviator Glen Kidston, automotive journalist S.C.H. Bentley Listings "Sammy" Davis, and Dr. Dudley Benjafield among Bentley Listings them) kept the Bentley Listings marque's reputation for high performance alive. Thanks to the dedication Bentley Listings to serious racing of this group, the company, located at Bentley Listings Cricklewood, north London, was noted for its four consecutive victories Bentley Listings at the 24 hours of Le Mans from 1927 to Bentley Listings 1930. Their greatest competitor at the time, Bugatti—whose lightweight, elegant, Bentley Listings but fragile creations contrasted with the Bentley's rugged reliability and Bentley Listings durability—referred to them as "the world's fastest lorries." In March Bentley Listings 1930, during the Blue Train Races, Woolf Barnato raised the Bentley Listings stakes on Rover and its Rover Light Six, having raced Bentley Listings and beat Le Train Bleu for the first time, to Bentley Listings better that record with his 61/2-litre Bentley Speed Six on Bentley Listings a bet of ?100. He drove against the train from Bentley Listings Cannes to Calais, then by ferry to Dover and finally Bentley Listings London, travelling on public highways, and won; the H.J. Mulliner-bodied Bentley Listings formal saloon he drove during the race as well as Bentley Listings a streamlined fastback "Sportsman Coupe" by Gurney Nutting he took Bentley Listings delivery of on 21 May 1930 became known Auto Insurance Companies as the Bentley Listings "Blue Train Bentleys"; the latter is regularly mistaken for (or Bentley Listings erroneously referred to) as being the car that raced the Bentley Listings Blue Train, while in fact Barnato named it in memory Bentley Listings of his race.[2][3 [edit] Car model The original model was Bentley Listings the 3-litre, but as customers put heavier bodies on the Bentley Listings chassis, a larger 41/2-litre model followed. Perhaps the most iconic Bentley Listings model of the period is the 41/2-litre "Blower Bentley," with Bentley Listings its distinctive supercharger projecting forward from the bottom of the Bentley Listings grille. Uncharacteristically fragile for a Bentley, it was not the Bentley Listings racing workhorse the 61/2-litre was. It became famous in popular Bentley Listings media as the vehicle of James Bond in the original Bentley Listings novels, but not in film; however, John Steed, in the Bentley Listings television series The Avengers, did drive a Bentley Bentley Listings * 1921–29 3-litr * Bentley Listings 1926–30 41/2-litre & "Blower Bentley * Bentley Listings 1926–30 61/2-litr * 1928–30 61/2-litre Speed Bentley Listings Si * 1930–31 8-litr Bentley Listings * 1931 4-litr [edit] Bentleys of the Rolls-Royce Bentley Listings era (1931–98 1935 Bentley 31/2-litre Cabriolet S1 Continental Fastback Coupe' Bentley Listings with Mulliner bodywork 1952 Bentley R Type: an evolution of Bentley Listings the Mark VI, which was the first Bentley available from Bentley Listings the manufacturer with a standard body Rare left-hand drive 1963 Bentley Listings Bentley S3 Continental 1980 Bentley Mulsanne Rolls-Royce had bought Bentley Bentley Listings secretly using a company named the British Central Equitable Trust; Bentley Listings not even Bentley himself knew the true identity of the Bentley Listings purchaser until the deal was completed.[1] A new company, wholly Bentley Listings owned by Rolls-Royce, was formed as Bentley Motors (1931) Ltd. Bentley Listings As W.O. Bentley was little more than an employee, he Bentley Listings left to join Lagonda in 1935 when his contract was Bentley Listings up for renewal. The Cricklewood factory was closed and sold, Bentley Listings and production moved to the Rolls-Royce works in Derby When Bentley Listings a new Bentley car appeared in 1933, the 31/2-litre, it Bentley Listings was a sporting variant of the Rolls-Royce 20/25—and although disappointing Bentley Listings some traditional customers, it was well-received by many others. Even Bentley Listings Bentley himself was reported as saying, "Taking all things into Bentley Listings consideration, I would rather own this Bentley than any other Bentley Listings car produced under that name."[1 After World War II, production Bentley Listings of Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars was moved to an ex-wartime Bentley Listings engine factory in Crewe, Cheshire. Bentleys increasingly became Rolls-Royces without Bentley Listings the distinctive grilles and with a lower price tag, and Bentley Listings by the 1970s and early 1980s, sales had fallen badly, Bentley Listings with at one time less than 5% of Bentley Listings production carrying Bentley Listings the Bentley badge.[1 The parent company failed in 1970 following Bentley Listings problems with aero engine development, and the car division was Bentley Listings floated off to become Rolls-Royce Motors Ltd. and remained independent Bentley Listings until bought by Vickers in August 1980 In the 1980s, Bentley Listings Bentley became a separate, high-performance car line once again, typified Bentley Listings by the 1980 Mulsanne. The new sporting image created a Bentley Listings new interest in the name and sales as a proportion Bentley Listings of output started to rise. In 1986, the Rolls-Royce:Bentley ratio Bentley Listings was 60:40, and in 1991, it was 50:50.[1 The Bentley Bentley Listings factory in Crewe, Cheshire, is still known in the town Bentley Listings by the name "Royce's." For more on Bentley Motors from Bentley Listings 1931 to 1998, see Rolls-Royce and Rolls-Royce Motors [edit] Car Bentley Listings model * 1933–37 31/2-litr Bentley Listings o 1936–39 Bentley Listings 41/4-litr * 1939–41 Mark Bentley Listings o Bentley Listings 1939 Mark * 1946–52 Mark Bentley Listings V * 1952–55 R Type and Bentley Listings Continenta * 1955–59 S1 and Continenta Bentley Listings * 1959–62 S2 and Continenta Bentley Listings * 1962–65 S3 and Continenta Bentley Listings * 1965–80 T-serie Bentley Listings o 1965–77 T Bentley Listings o 1977–80 Bentley Listings T * 1971–84 Cornich Bentley Listings o 1984–95 Bentley Listings Continental — convertibl Bentley Listings + Bentley Listings 1992–95 Continental Turb * 1975–86 Camargu Bentley Listings * 1980–87 Mulsann Bentley Listings o 1984–88 Mulsanne Bentley Listings L — limousin Bentley Listings o 1982–85 Mulsanne Turb Bentley Listings o 1987–92 Mulsanne Bentley Listings Bentley Listings o 1984–92 Eight — lower-priced mode Bentley Listings o 1985–95 Turbo Bentley Listings R — turbocharged performance versio Bentley Listings o 1991–2002 Continental R — Bentley Listings turbocharged 2-door mode Bentley Listings + Bentley Listings 1999–2003 Continental R Mulliner — performance mode Bentley Listings Bentley Listings + 1994–95 Continental S — intercoole Bentley Listings o Bentley Listings 1992–98 Brooklands — improved Eigh Bentley Listings Bentley Listings + 1996–98 Brooklands R — performance Brookland Bentley Listings o 1994–95 Bentley Listings Turbo S — limited-edition sports mode Bentley Listings o 1995–97 Turbo R Bentley Listings — updated Turbo Bentley Listings o 1995–97 Turbo RL — updated Bentley Listings Turbo R LWB (Long Wheel Base Bentley Listings Bentley Listings + 1996 Turbo R Sport — limited-edition sports Bentley Listings mode Bentley Listings o 1995–2003 Azure — convertible Continental Bentley Listings Bentley Listings + 1999–2002 Azure Mulliner — performance Bentley Listings mode Bentley Listings o 1996–2002 Continental T — short-wheelbase performance mode Bentley Listings Bentley Listings + 1999 Continental T Mulliner Bentley Listings — firmer suspensio Bentley Listings o 1997–98 Bentley Turbo RT — replacement Bentley Listings for the Turbo R [edit] Volkswagen Group ownershi 2003 Bentley Bentley Listings Azure Mulliner, Final Series In 1998, Rolls-Royce and Bentley Motors Bentley Listings were purchased from Vickers (the owner since 1980) by Volkswagen Bentley Listings Group for ?430 million, following a bidding war with BMW. Bentley Listings BMW had recently started supplying components for the new range Bentley Listings of Rolls and Bentley cars, notably V8 engines for the Bentley Listings Bentley Arnage and V12 engines for the Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph. Bentley Listings VW believed that the Rolls-Royce name was included in the Bentley Listings purchase, when in fact it belonged to Rolls-Royce plc, the Bentley Listings aero-engine company, and was used by the automobile division under Bentley Listings licence. It also emerged that BMW's aeronautical division had a Bentley Listings joint venture agreement with Rolls-Royce plc and that the German Bentley Listings company was able to terminate its supply deal with Rolls-Royce Bentley Listings with 12 months' notice, which would not be enough time Bentley Listings for VW to re-engineer the cars BMW and Volkswagen entered Bentley Listings into negotiations, and an agreement was reached whereby Volkswagen would Bentley Listings manufacture both Bentley and Rolls-Royce cars until the end of Bentley Listings 2002, licensing the name from Rolls-Royce plc; on 1 January Bentley Listings 2003, the right to build Rolls-Royce cars would transfer to Bentley Listings BMW. BMW licensed the brand from Rolls-Royce plc and paid Bentley Listings ?40 million to VW, but the deal did not include Bentley Listings any manufacturing facilities, staff, or intellectual property on present or Bentley Listings future models. BMW also agreed to continue its supply agreements, Bentley Listings which gave VW the time it needed to reduce its Bentley Listings reliance on BMW as a supplier. Bentley reintroduced the venerable Bentley Listings Rolls-Royce V8 engine into the Arnage, initially as an additional Bentley Listings model, and all BMW engine supply ended in 2003 with Bentley Listings the end of Silver Seraph production [edit] Modern Bentley The Bentley Listings current Bentley lineup (from left): Flying Spur, Continental GT, and Bentley Listings Arnage Queen Elizabeth II's Bentley State Limousine In 2002, Bentley Bentley Listings presented Queen Elizabeth II with an official State Limousine to Bentley Listings celebrate the Golden Jubilee. In 2003, Bentley's 2-door convertible, the Bentley Listings Bentley Azure, ceased production, and the company introduced the Bentley Bentley Listings Continental GT, a large luxury coupe. The car is powered Bentley Listings by a W-12 engine built in Crewe Demand had been Bentley Listings so great that the factory at Crewe was unable to Bentley Listings meet orders despite an installed capacity of approximately 9500 vehicles Bentley Listings per year; there was a waiting list of over a Bentley Listings year for new cars to be delivered. Consequently, part of Bentley Listings the production of the new Flying Spur, a four-door version Bentley Listings of the Continental GT, was assigned to the Transparent Factory, Bentley Listings where the VW Phaeton luxury car is also assembled. This Bentley Listings arrangement ceased at the end of 2006 after around 1000 Bentley Listings cars, now highly sought after. All car production reverted to Bentley Listings the Crewe plant In April 2005, Bentley confirmed plans to Bentley Listings produce a 4-seat convertible model—the Azure, derived from the Arnage Bentley Listings Drophead Coupe prototype—at Crewe beginning in 2006. By the autumn Bentley Listings of 2005, the convertible version of the successful Continental GT, Bentley Listings the Continental GTC, was also presented. These two models were Bentley Listings successfully launched in late 2006 A limited run of a Bentley Listings Zagato modified GT was also announced in March 2008, dubbed Bentley Listings "GTZ. A new Bentley version of the Bentley Continental was Bentley Listings introduced at the 2009 Geneva Auto Show: The Continental Supersports. Bentley Listings This new Bentley is a supercar combining extreme power with Bentley Listings pioneering FlexFuel technology (environmentally friendly). A muscular two-seater with distinctive Bentley Listings exterior and interior styling that is unmistakably Bentley in its Bentley Listings design, craftsmanship and performance. The engine derived from Bentley’s current Bentley Listings W12 power unit was re-engineered, re-tuned and re-mapped to achieve Bentley Listings phenomenal supercar potency. 0-60mph in 3.7 seconds (0-100km/h 3.9 seconds). Bentley Listings 621bhp (463kW/630PS). 800Nm (590 Ib ft) @ 2000 to 4500rpm. Bentley Listings The Continental Supersports is the fastest, most powerful production Bentley Bentley Listings ever. [4 Bentley sales continued to increase, and in 2005, Bentley Listings 8,627 were sold worldwide, 3,654 of which were sold in Bentley Listings the United States. In 2007, with sales of 10,014, the Bentley Listings 10,000 cars-per-year threshold was broken for the first time in Bentley Listings the company's history. For 2007, a record profit of ˆ155 Bentley Listings million was also announced.[5 * 1998 Bentley Listings – Arnage saloo * 1999 – Bentley Listings Hunaudieres Concep * 2002 – State Bentley Listings Limousin * 2003 – Continental GT Bentley Listings coupe * 2005 – Continental Of Audi Flying Bentley Listings Spur saloo * 2006 – Azure Bentley Listings convertibl * 2006 – Continental GT Bentley Listings convertibl * 2007 – Continental GT Bentley Listings Speed coupe * 2008 – Bentley Bentley Listings Brooklands coupe * 2008 – Bentley Bentley Listings Continental Flying Spur Speed saloo * Bentley Listings 2009 – Continental GTC Spee * Bentley Listings 2009 – Azure * 2009 Bentley Listings – Arnage saloon, Final Serie * Bentley Listings 2009 – Continental Supersport The current board of management consists Bentley Listings of Dr. Franz-Josef Paefgen, Chairman and Chief Executive; Dr. Ulrich Bentley Listings Eichhorn, Engineering; Stuart J. McCullough, Sales & Marketing; Douglas G. Bentley Listings Dickson, Manufacturing; Christine A. Gaskell, Personnel; and Juergen Hoffmann, Finance Bentley Listings [edit] Current Bentley racin In 2001–03, the Bentley Speed 8 Bentley Listings enjoyed a successful racing streak in the Le Mans series Bentley Listings [edit] Future car Since Bentley's induction into the VW Group, Bentley Listings rumours of an SUV-style vehicle have repeatedly surfaced. These have Bentley Listings been shot down by Bentley employees on the basis that Bentley Listings the idea would not fit into their future plans and Bentley Listings also the fact that the manufacturing facilities are already running Bentley Listings at full capacity Borrowing hybrid technology developed by Bentley owners, Bentley Listings VW Group is another focal point as the trend towards Bentley Listings hybrid cars is expanding year on year The all-new Grand Bentley Listings Bentley The "all new grand Bentley" that will be replacing Bentley Listings the Final Series Arnage. To date, only a teaser image Bentley Listings is available from Bentley. [6] The car is likely to Bentley Listings be revealed next summer, most likely in August at the Bentley Listings Pebble Beach Concours d'E'le'gance in the USA. The new car Bentley Listings is expected for the 2010 model year and is said Bentley Listings to take styling cues from the Bentley from the Bentley Bentley Listings State